triceratopsn.
/trʌɪˈsɛrətɒps/, U.S. /traɪˈsɛrəˌtɑps/ Palaeontology.
A genus of gigantic predentate dinosaurs of the family Ceratopsidæ, having a strong nasal horn, besides two large pointed horns above the eyes; found in the Laramie beds of the United States.
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1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Mar. 7/1 In the same neighbourhood also has been discovered recently another reptilian monster called the triceratops, which had an enormous bony frill around the back of its neck..measuring six feet across... The animal, though tremendously massive, was only thirty feet long.
1910 Spectator 21 May 838/2 The oddest is the gigantic triceratops, the three-horned herbivorous dinosaur.
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