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Dinosaur with prominent horns
Answer for the clue "Dinosaur with prominent horns ", 11 letters:
triceratops
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dinosaur genus, 1890, from Greek trikeratos "three-horned" + ops "face," literally "eye," from PIE *okw- "to see" (see eye (n.)). The first element is from tri- "three" (see three ) + keras (genitive keratos ) "horn" (see kerato- ).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the late Cretaceous period , about 68 million years ago (mya) in what is now North America . It is one of the last known non-avian dinosaur ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill
Usage examples of triceratops.
One tyrannosaurus, his flung-out leg half mincemeat from the thigh down, continued to drag out and gobble the guts of the triceratops he had slaughtered.
Triceratops, that Triceratops, was even now walking leisurely down the road before their very eyes.
Ten meters away the small mountains of triceratops hips swayed steadily forward, dragging a tail like a telephone pole.
Between our world and the world of Triceratops, seventy million years ago.
Listening to the distant, bassoonlike cries of a female triceratops in heat, howling through the long night.
Even the triceratops in the garage just opened his eyes a bit and stared at me like he always does.
Before their eyes, a triceratops, head lowered, charged forward and plunged sharp horns into the carotid artery of an attacking tyrannosaurus.
Three more tyrannosauruses swooped onto the mammoth body of the triceratops, crumpled just six meters in front of their home.
Behind him sprawled the body of one of his comrades, a gaping hole bored through its neck, its body clotted with dried blood, while no more than five meters away a triceratops grazed silently on the grass, blood still seeping from one of its eyes.
Hunter adjusted the coil of rope on his shoulder as he watched the triceratops calmly eating the leaves from a large, full bush.
The triceratops twitched its ears curiously but otherwise did not move from the bush it was eating.
While the triceratops rammed the first tyrannosaurus again, tearing at its insides, the second tyrannosaurus was lumbering through the forest directly toward them, smashing everything in its path underfoot.
But from triceratops posture they could well imagine its cautious advance, front legs crouched, head lowered, body in readiness for the slightest sign of danger.
The carnivore, its blood fountaining into the air like water from a fire hose, fell back, lashed its long tail, and leaped hugely, gouging out the triceratops eyes with a single sweep of the key-shaped claws on its forelegs.
Suddenly, something yawned out from the gloom: it was a triceratops skull, mounted on the wall, its outlines shadowy and vague in the poor light.