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单词 triceratops
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Definition of triceratops in English:

triceratops

noun trʌɪˈsɛrətɒpstraɪˈsɛrəˌtɑps
  • A large quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur living at the end of the Cretaceous period, having a massive head with two large horns, a smaller horn on the beaked snout, and a bony frill above the neck.

    Genus Triceratops, infraorder Ceratopsia, order Ornithischia

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In fact, he's headed to Montana this August to excavate tyrannosaurs and triceratops.
    • The bronze skull of a triceratops is five feet high, seven feet long and weighs a ton.
    • The triceratops, like all dinosaurs, only had a small brain but he made up for it with his big heart (some dinosaurs even had two hearts).
    • The latest addition to the museum's menagerie of dinosaurs - a cast of a full-size triceratops skeleton, ready for action.
    • When given a picture of a triceratops and told it was a dinosaur, the children correctly inferred that it belonged to the cold-blooded class of animals.

Origin

Modern Latin, from Greek trikeratos 'three-horned' + ōps 'face'.

 
 

Definition of triceratops in US English:

triceratops

nountrīˈserəˌtäpstraɪˈsɛrəˌtɑps
  • A large quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur living at the end of the Cretaceous period, having a massive head with two large horns, a smaller horn on the beaked snout, and a bony frill above the neck.

    Genus Triceratops, infraorder Ceratopsia, order Ornithischia

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In fact, he's headed to Montana this August to excavate tyrannosaurs and triceratops.
    • When given a picture of a triceratops and told it was a dinosaur, the children correctly inferred that it belonged to the cold-blooded class of animals.
    • The latest addition to the museum's menagerie of dinosaurs - a cast of a full-size triceratops skeleton, ready for action.
    • The triceratops, like all dinosaurs, only had a small brain but he made up for it with his big heart (some dinosaurs even had two hearts).
    • The bronze skull of a triceratops is five feet high, seven feet long and weighs a ton.

Origin

Modern Latin, from Greek trikeratos ‘three-horned’ + ōps ‘face’.

 
 
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