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noun
Any ornithopod dinosaur of the family Hadrosauridae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, history, human-sciences, natural-sciences, paleontology, sciences
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noun
any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hadrosaurus, duck-billed dinosaur
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Broader terms: ornithischian, ornithischian dinosaur
Narrower terms: anatotitan, corythosaur, corythosaurus, edmontosaurus, trachodon, trachodont
History
Back-formation from Hadrosauridae, from the type genus Hadrosaurus, which in turn was derived from Ancient Greek ἁδρός (hadrós, “strong”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).
