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PSITTACOSAURUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal
Synonyms:
psittacosaur; psittacosaurus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("psittacosaurus" is a kind of...):
ceratopsian; horned dinosaur (any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia)
Holonyms ("psittacosaurus" is a member of...):
genus Psittacosaurus (most primitive genus of horned dinosaurs; early Cretaceous)