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Definition of Ankylosaurus
1. Noun. Having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's.
Generic synonyms: Armored Dinosaur
Group relationships: Genus Ankylosaurus
Specialized synonyms: Edmontonia
Definition of Ankylosaurus
1. Noun. A large, herbivorous dinosaur, of genus ''Ankylosaurus'', that lived in the Cretaceous period, noted for its heavy armor and club-like tail. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ankylosaurus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ankylosaurus
Literary usage of Ankylosaurus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"The dangers of such attempted restorations as the present one 011 such imperfect
material are apparent here, since ankylosaurus is either very closely ..."
2. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"ankylosaurus was a contemporary of Tyrannosaurus and the duck-billed dinosaurs,
and FIG. 166.—Heads of horned dinosaurs, Ceratopsia. ..."
3. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1918)
"... in the herbivorous dinosaurs, known as ankylosaurus, in which there developed
a close imitation of the armadillo or glyptodon type of mammal, ..."
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