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Thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's
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ankylosaurus
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Wiktionary
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n. A large herbivorous dinosaur, of genus (taxlink Ankylosaurus genus noshow=1), that lived in the Cretaceous period, noted for its heavy armor and club-like tail.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Cretaceous armored dinosaur, 1907, Modern Latin, from Greek ankylos "crooked" (see angle (n.)) + -saurus .
Wikipedia
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Ankylosaurus is a genus of armored dinosaur . Fossils of Ankylosaurus have been found in geological formations dating to the very end of the Cretaceous Period , between about 68–66 million years ago, in western North America , making it among the last of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's [syn: ankylosaur ]
Usage examples of ankylosaurus.
For many days after Everett had become just another scat on our tracks, Utahraptor and Pteranodon and I trudged across that dead landscape eyeing Ankylosaurus, drooling down our chins as we imagined the unspeakably tender morsels that must lie nestled inside that armored shell.
Utahraptor and Ankylosaurus and I in a neat triangle with Pteranodon hovering overhead.
Centrosaurus, Ankylosaurus, and avisaurs such asArchaeopteryx all lived at one time.
The names appear in this story: there was Albert the Apatosaurus, Pete the Pentaceratops, Palmer the Parasaurolophus, Sally the Stegosaurus, and Alice the Ankylosaurus.
For many days after Everett had become just another scat on our tracks, Utahraptor and Pteranodon and I trudged across that dead landscape eyeing Ankylosaurus, drooling down our chins as we imagined the unspeakably tender morsels that must lie nestled inside that armored shell.
To be precise, they were dinosaur scales, which I recognized as belonging to Pteranodon, Ankylosaurus, and Utahraptor, and they appeared to have been jarred loose from their bodies by powerful impacts.