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ORNITHISCHIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird
Synonyms:
ornithischian; ornithischian dinosaur
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ornithischian" is a kind of...):
dinosaur (any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ornithischian"):
pisanosaur; pisanosaurus (primitive dinosaur found in Argentina)
staurikosaur; staurikosaurus (primitive dinosaur found in Brazil)
armored dinosaur (dinosaurs having bony armour)
bone-headed dinosaur (bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns)
ceratopsian; horned dinosaur (any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia)
ornithopod; ornithopod dinosaur (bipedal herbivorous dinosaur)
duck-billed dinosaur; hadrosaur; hadrosaurus (any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic)
Holonyms ("ornithischian" is a member of...):
order Ornithischia; Ornithischia (extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods))