Lambeosaur

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A crested duck-billed dinosaur of the family Hadrosauridae.

    "Bipedal hadrosaurs, great hulking lambeosaurs, certain rhino-like ceratopsians and relatives of the velociraptors - all large and probably able swimmers - had the greatest success."

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"Bipedal hadrosaurs, great hulking lambeosaurs, certain rhino-like ceratopsians and relatives of the velociraptors - all large and probably able swimmers - had the greatest success."

Etymology

From translingual Lambeosaurus, from Lambe + -saurus, named for Lawrence Lambe.

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