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SUBORDER CERATOPSIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Horned dinosaurs

Synonyms:

Ceratopsia; suborder Ceratopsia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("suborder Ceratopsia" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "suborder Ceratopsia"):

ceratopsian; horned dinosaur (any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia)

Ceratopsidae; family Ceratopsidae (American ceratopsian dinosaurs)

genus Protoceratops (small horned dinosaurs)

genus Triceratops (genus of herbivorous horned dinosaurs)

genus Styracosaurus (genus of horned dinosaurs)

genus Psittacosaurus (most primitive genus of horned dinosaurs; early Cretaceous)

Holonyms ("suborder Ceratopsia" is a member of...):

Marginocephalia; marginocephalian; suborder Marginocephalia (includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs)

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