triceratops
/trʌɪˈsɛrətɒps
/noun
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.
- 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.
- In fact, he's headed to Montana this August to excavate tyrannosaurs and triceratops.
Origin
Modern Latin, from Greek trikeratos 'three-horned' + ōps 'face'.
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