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Massive dinosaur of the early Cretaceous period
Answer for the clue "Massive dinosaur of the early Cretaceous period ", 9 letters:
iguanodon
Alternative clues for the word iguanodon
- Massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail
- 30-foot-long dinosaur able to walk on either two legs or four
- Big beast in union, a dog barking
- Dinosaur with large thumb spikes
- Dinosaur with spiked thumbs
- Large, herbivorous dinosaur that could walk on two legs
- Early Cretaceous
- One of the dinosaurs upon which Godzilla is based
Word definitions for iguanodon in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dinosaur name, 1825, hybrid from iguana + stem of Greek odonys "tooth" (on model of mastodon ). So called because the fossil teeth and bones were thought to resemble those of the lizard.
Usage examples of iguanodon.
Its eyes were dim with tears, for it was still thinking of the Iguanodon and Ichthyosaurus, and of the good old days before the Flood.
Brontosaurus, diplodocus, brachiosaurus, iguanodon, moschops, stegosaurus, triceratops, and other droppings were labeled by engraving on the bronze stands that held the spheres.
Fifty feet away the iguanodon moved from the shelter of a great maple into the open.
August the twenty-eighth--the day we saw five live iguanodons in a glade of Maple White Land.
If, as Lord John said, the glade of the iguanodons will remain with us as a dream, then surely the swamp of the pterodactyls will forever be our nightmare.
I could see at my very feet the glade of the iguanodons, and farther off was a round opening in the trees which marked the swamp of the pterodactyls.
If every living thing were swept from the country the future explorer would find upon the walls of these caves ample evidence of the strange fauna--the dinosaurs, iguanodons, and fish lizards--which had lived so recently upon earth.