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Hadrosaurus, n. Palaeontol.
Brit. |hadrəˈsɔːrəs|, U.S. |ˌhædrəˈsɔrəs|
[‹ scientific Latin Hadrosaurus, genus name (J. Leidy: see quot. 1859). Compare hadrosaur n.]
A genus of duck-billed dinosaurs of the family Hadrosauridae, distinguished by an absence of the crest that is a characteristic of most hadrosaurids; (also hadrosaurus) a dinosaur of this genus.
1859J. Leidy in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 10 215 The genus is, however, different, and for it the name of Hadrosaurus is proposed. 1877H. A. Nicholson Anc. Life-hist. Earth (1878) xvii. 278 Closely allied to the Iguanodon is the Hadrosaurus of the American Cretaceous. 1943Sci. Monthly Feb. 118/2 That ambitious artist [sc. Waterhouse Hawkins] did finally make a plaster model of Cope's dinosaur Hadrosaurus for the Exposition. 1982Newsweek (Nexis) 29 Mar. 44 Physicists and astronomers who wouldn't cross the street to look at a duck-billed hadrosaurus packed the AAAS seminar to hear Gould's paper. 2001D. Burnie Kingfisher Illustr. Dinosaur Encycl. 104/2 Since then, many more fossils have been found, revealing that Hadrosaurus had a duck-billed head with a raised lump on its snout, but not a crest, like some other members of its family. |