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CERATOPSIAN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia

Synonyms:

ceratopsian; horned dinosaur

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("ceratopsian" is a kind of...):

ornithischian; ornithischian dinosaur (herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ceratopsian"):

protoceratops (small horned dinosaur)

triceratops (huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill)

styracosaur; styracosaurus (an unusual ceratopsian dinosaur having many large spikes around the edge of its bony frill and a long nose horn; late Cretaceous)

psittacosaur; psittacosaurus (primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal)

Holonyms ("ceratopsian" is a member of...):

Ceratopsia; suborder Ceratopsia (horned dinosaurs)

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