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Fearsome creature with plates on its back
Answer for the clue "Fearsome creature with plates on its back ", 9 letters:
stegosaur
Alternative clues for the word stegosaur
- Prehistoric lizard gets knocked back by a sour concoction
- 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
- Literally, "roof lizard"
- Old beast I noticed that could be heard on the way
- Sure goats can be mistaken for a reptile?
- Extinct plant-eater
Word definitions for stegosaur in dictionaries
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 ]
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)
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.