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Literally, "roof lizard"
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stegosaur
Alternative clues for the word stegosaur
- Old beast I noticed that could be heard on the way
- Plant-eating dino with spikes on its back
- Herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon
- Prehistoric lizard gets knocked back by a sour concoction
- Extinct plant-eater
- Fearsome creature with plates on its back
- Sure goats can be mistaken for a reptile?
Word definitions for stegosaur in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several extinct herbivorous dinosaurs, of the suborder Stegosauria, having two rows of bony plates along the back. (from ''c''. 1900)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon [syn: stegosaurus , Stegosaur stenops ]
Usage examples of stegosaur.
On the far end of the living room, the stegosaur pair, Zack and Kip, were playing with Jean-Claude and Pierrot, the theropod tyrannosaurs, a game using checker pieces whipped across the floor with their tails, like hockey pucks.
The stegosaurs frequently get blisters on their tongues and diarrhea, for reasons no one yet understands, even though we've lost two.
Ralibar Vooz concontinued his progress through the Cavern of the Archetypes: a progress often delayed by the alimentary designs of crude, misty-stomached allosaurs, pterodactyls, pterandons, stegosaurs, and other carnivora of the prime.
The first was Thyreophora, which produced the heavily armored dinosaurs, the best known of which are probably the stegosaurs, which had spikes and plates atop their backs and tails.