ORNITHISCHIAN DINOSAUR
Dictionary entry overview: What does ornithischian dinosaur mean?
• ORNITHISCHIAN DINOSAUR (noun)
The noun ORNITHISCHIAN DINOSAUR has 1 sense:
1. herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird
Familiarity information: ORNITHISCHIAN DINOSAUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ORNITHISCHIAN DINOSAUR (noun)
Meaning:
Herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
ornithischian; ornithischian dinosaur
Hypernyms ("ornithischian dinosaur" 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 dinosaur"):
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 dinosaur" is a member of...):
order Ornithischia; Ornithischia (extinct terrestrial reptiles having birdlike pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods))
