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单词 ankylosaur
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Definition of ankylosaur in English:

ankylosaur

nounˈaŋkɪləsɔːˈaNGkiləˌsôr
  • A heavily built quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous period, armoured with bony plates.

    Infraorder Ankylosauria, order Ornithischia: several genera, in particular Ankylosaurus

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs.
    • Most recently, a new ankylosaur was named on the basis of an incomplete mandible and fragmentary cranial material, but the ankylosaurian affinities and validity of this taxon are doubtful.
    • Living at the same time as Utahraptor was a dinosaur that belonged to the tanklike armadillo shaped ankylosaurs called Gastonia.
    • Skeletons range from twelve-foot remains of the armored dinosaurs known as ankylosaurs, with almost every piece of bony plate intact, to two-inch skeletons of early mammals, complete down to their fragile, microscopic ear bones.
    • The ankylosaurs were heavily armoured dinosaurs, 2 to 10 meters long, quadrupedal, slow moving, and fed on swampy soft vegetation.
    • These early ankylosaur or glyptodont analogues often had widely-flared skulls, ornamented with irregular blobs of bone, looking like half-melted wax.
    • These were the fragmentary remains of an armored dinosaur, an ankylosaur.

Origin

Early 20th century: from modern Latin Ankylosaurus, from Greek ankulos (see ankylosis) + sauros 'lizard'.

 
 

Definition of ankylosaur in US English:

ankylosaur

(also ankylosaurus)
nounˈaNGkiləˌsôr
  • A heavily built quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur primarily of the Cretaceous period, armored with bony plates.

    Infraorder Ankylosauria, order Ornithischia: several genera, in particular Ankylosaurus

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These early ankylosaur or glyptodont analogues often had widely-flared skulls, ornamented with irregular blobs of bone, looking like half-melted wax.
    • Most recently, a new ankylosaur was named on the basis of an incomplete mandible and fragmentary cranial material, but the ankylosaurian affinities and validity of this taxon are doubtful.
    • These were the fragmentary remains of an armored dinosaur, an ankylosaur.
    • Birds did not evolve from massive sauropods or antediluvian, tanklike ankylosaurs or even from the large tyrannosaurs.
    • Living at the same time as Utahraptor was a dinosaur that belonged to the tanklike armadillo shaped ankylosaurs called Gastonia.
    • The ankylosaurs were heavily armoured dinosaurs, 2 to 10 meters long, quadrupedal, slow moving, and fed on swampy soft vegetation.
    • Skeletons range from twelve-foot remains of the armored dinosaurs known as ankylosaurs, with almost every piece of bony plate intact, to two-inch skeletons of early mammals, complete down to their fragile, microscopic ear bones.

Origin

Early 20th century: from modern Latin Ankylosaurus, from Greek ankulos (see ankylosis) + sauros ‘lizard’.

 
 
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