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THYREOPHORAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs
Synonyms:
suborder Thyreophora; Thyreophora; thyreophoran
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("thyreophoran" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "thyreophoran"):
armored dinosaur (dinosaurs having bony armour)
genus Stegosaurus (quadrupedal armored herbivore of the Jurassic and Cretaceous)
genus Ankylosaurus (armored herbivorous dinosaurs of the Cretaceous)
Holonyms ("thyreophoran" 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))
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