hadrosauriann.adj.
/hadrəˈsɔːrɪən/, U.S. /ˌhædrəˈsɔriən/ Palaeontology.
A. n.
A hadrosaur.
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1877 E. C. Brewer Errors of Speech & Spelling 427 Hadrosaurus or hadrosaurian, a huge herbivorous fossil reptile.
1948 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 100 27 The hadrosaurians were all aquatic dinosaurs.
2005 F. M. Dalla Vecchia in V. Tidwell & K. Carpenter Thunder-lizards xviii. 422 Telmatosaurus was around 5 meters long (more or less the same as the late Santonian hadrosaurians from Italy).
B. adj.
Designating a hadrosaur; of or relating to hadrosaurs.
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1897 Ann. Rep. State Geologist New Jersey 1896 iv. iii. 249 A restored skeleton of another species of an Hadrosaurian Dinosaur.
1933 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 67 40 This fragmentary specimen..might with equal propriety be referred to any one of a number of hadrosaurian genera.
2006 A. Ocampo et al. in C. Cockell et al. Biol. Processes associated with Impact Events 206 Fossil bones of hadrosaurian dinosaurs are most frequently found in the sediments.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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