hadrosaurus

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had·ro·saur·us

H5008575 (hăd′rə-sôr′əs)n. A hadrosaurid dinosaur of the genus Hadrosaurus, having a bulky body and no crest on the head. A hadrosaurus fossil found in New Jersey (1858) was the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton excavated in the United States. Also called hadrosaur.

[New Latin Hadrosaurus, genus name : Greek hadros, thick; see hadron + sauros, lizard.]

Thesaurus

Noun

hadrosaurus - any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquaticduck-billed dinosaur, hadrosaurornithischian, ornithischian dinosaur - herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a birdfamily Hadrosauridae, Hadrosauridae - duck-billed dinosaurs; upper Cretaceousanatotitan - one of the largest and most famous duck-billed dinosaurscorythosaur, corythosaurus - duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmetedmontosaurus - duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skintrachodon, trachodont - large duck-billed dinosaur of the Cretaceous period

hadrosaurus

noun

Synonyms for hadrosaurus

noun any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet

Synonyms

duck-billed dinosaur
hadrosaur

Related Words

ornithischian
ornithischian dinosaur
family Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae
anatotitan
corythosaur
corythosaurus
edmontosaurus
trachodon
trachodont