horned dinosaur

Noun
  1. Any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls;
    Of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia (synset 101706210)
    is a type of: ornithischian, ornithischian dinosaur - herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird
    subtypes:
    • protoceratops - small horned dinosaur
    • triceratops - huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill
    • styracosaur, styracosaurus - an unusual ceratopsian dinosaur having many large spikes around the edge of its bony frill and a long nose horn; late Cretaceous
    • psittacosaur, psittacosaurus - primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal
    belongs to: ceratopsia, suborder ceratopsia - horned dinosaurs
    same as: ceratopsian

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