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stegosaur

n. Any of several extinct herbivorous dinosaurs, of the suborder Stegosauria, having two rows of bony plates along the back. (from ''c''. 1900)

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stegosaur

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]

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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.