Crossword clues for ceratopsian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ceratopsian \ceratopsian\ n. any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls, of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia.
Syn: horned dinosaur.
Wiktionary
a. Of or belonging to the Ceratopsia suborder of dinosaurs. n. Any member of this suborder
WordNet
n. any of several four-footed herbivorous horned dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia [syn: horned dinosaur]
Usage examples of "ceratopsian".
Although the intended victim, apparently of the ceratopsian family, was a good seven meters long and armed with three large horns, it seemed a foregone conclusion that the battle would end in the death of the larger beast.
The ornithopods, in turn, are close to other contemporary groups, the horned, ceratopsian dinosaurs and the domeheaded pachycephalosaurs.
Among the ornithischians are one species each of ankylosaur, nodosaur, and hysilophodont, two species of hadrosaur, and three species each of ceratopsian and pachycephalosaur.
Fieldwork by Cope, Marsh, and their collectors led to the uncovering of the first specimens of sauropod and ceratopsian dinosaurs.
Although Marsh maintained collectors at Como Bluff until 1889, and profited from later discoveries of ceratopsian dinosaurs in other locations in Wyoming and Colorado, the nature of his dispute with Cope had changed by the late 1870s.
And one furnishing he demanded was a ceratopsian head over the fireplace.
I could see he was wondering whether a ceratopsian head would be worth the effort.
The hideous beast, resembling a stilt-legged rhino with a ceratopsian neck frill and wicked glowing eyes, minced in and out of the bodies without stepping on a single one.
There was a bend in the path where the ceratopsian herd had changed the course of its stampede to avoid a dense stand of conifers.
Another ceratopsian head smashed against the hull, and this time it ruptured.
And there it was: the remains of a huge ceratopsian lying in a little hollow on the edge of the copse.
And there it was: the remains of a huge ceratopsian lying in a little hollow on the edge of a copse.
The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duckbilled monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.
Then it is on, on to spy on something with a long neck and a comic knobby head, and then to watch a pair of angry ceratopsians butting heads in slow motion, and then to applaud the elegant migration of a herd of towering duckbills across the horizon.
The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duck-billed monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.