ornithopodadj.n.
/ɔːˈnɪθə(ʊ)pɒd/, /ˈɔːnᵻθəpɒd/, U.S. /ɔrˈnɪθoʊˌpɑd/, /ˈɔrnəθoʊˌpɑd/ Palaeontology.
A. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the suborder Ornithopoda of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs, whose hind feet somewhat resemble those of birds.
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ornithopod1886
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1886 Amer. Naturalist 20 804 A tooth of Craspedodon lonzcensis, an ornithopod dinosaurian from the Middle Senonian of Lonzée.
1933 A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleontol. ix. 196 (caption) Dorsal and lateral views of the ornithopod dinosaur Camptosaurus.
1975 Nature 23 Oct. 668/1 We describe here ornithopod dinosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous of western North America.
1990 Dong Zhiming in K. Carpenter & P. J. Currie Dinosaur Systematics (1992) xix. 260 This suggests that stegosaurian dinosaurs probably arose from a small ornithopod ancestor.
B. n.
A dinosaur of the suborder Ornithopoda.
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duck-bill1913
duck-billed dinosaur1913
1890 Cent. Dict. Ornithopod,..n. An ornithic dinosaur; a member of the Ornithopoda.
1933 A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleontol. ix. 197 The arch of the back was stiffened in ornithopods by a latticework of tendons.
1989 Equinox Mar. 82/1 The Iguanodon that contained Owen's dinner party had a horn jutting from its snout; 20 years later, Owen discovered that the protuberance was, in fact, a thumb spike belonging on the ornithopod's foot.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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