THYREOPHORAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thyreophoran mean? 

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

1. armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THYREOPHORAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

suborder Thyreophora; Thyreophora; thyreophoran

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "thyreophoran"):

armored dinosaur (dinosaurs having bony armour)

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

genus Ankylosaurus (armored herbivorous dinosaurs of the Cretaceous)

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

order Ornithischia; Ornithischia (extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods))