STEGOSAURUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stegosaurus mean? 

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

1. herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEGOSAURUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

stegosaur; Stegosaur stenops; stegosaurus

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

armored dinosaur (dinosaurs having bony armour)

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

genus Stegosaurus (quadrupedal armored herbivore of the Jurassic and Cretaceous)

 Context examples 

It was the stegosaurus—the very creature which Maple White had preserved in his sketch-book, and which had been the first object which arrested the attention of Challenger!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will observe that both the pterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among these he mentioned the gigantic and grotesque stegosaurus, seen once by Mr. Malone at a drinking-place by the lake, and drawn in the sketch-book of that adventurous American who had first penetrated this unknown world.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)