TRICERATOPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does triceratops mean? 

• TRICERATOPS (noun)
  The noun TRICERATOPS has 1 sense:

1. huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill

  Familiarity information: TRICERATOPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRICERATOPS (noun)

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Meaning:

Huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("triceratops" is a kind of...):

ceratopsian; horned dinosaur (any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia)

Holonyms ("triceratops" is a member of...):

genus Triceratops (genus of herbivorous horned dinosaurs)