GENUS STEGOSAURUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Stegosaurus mean? 

• GENUS STEGOSAURUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS STEGOSAURUS has 1 sense:

1. quadrupedal armored herbivore of the Jurassic and Cretaceous

  Familiarity information: GENUS STEGOSAURUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS STEGOSAURUS (noun)

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Meaning:

Quadrupedal armored herbivore of the Jurassic and Cretaceous

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Stegosaurus" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "genus Stegosaurus"):

stegosaur; Stegosaur stenops; stegosaurus (herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon)

Holonyms ("genus Stegosaurus" is a member of...):

suborder Thyreophora; Thyreophora; thyreophoran (armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs)