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Stegosaurus

//ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːɹəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A stegosaur, a member of the suborder Stegosauria, of the order Ornithischia of the middle Jurassic to early Cretaceous period.

    ""You will observe that both the pterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life.""

  2. 2
    herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon wordnet
  3. 3
    A member of the genus Stegosaurus within this suborder.

Etymology

From the genus name Stegosaurus. From Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

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