Definition of Ornithopoda

1. Noun. Widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon).


Definition of Ornithopoda

1. n. pl. An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.

Medical Definition of Ornithopoda

1. An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, especially. In the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. Origin: NL. See Ornitho-, and -poda. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ornithopoda

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ornithologies
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ornithology
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ornithomimid
ornithomimosaur
ornithomimosaurs
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ornithons
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ornithopod dinosaur
ornithopoda (current term)
ornithopods
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ornithopters
ornithorhynchus
ornithorhynchuses
ornithosauria
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ornithosis virus
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ornithotomist

Literary usage of Ornithopoda

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"The species has two extremes of leaf- form in Mexico: one with very narrow lobes to the leaf-blade, typical O. ornithopoda • and another with relatively ..."

2. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"In the tarsus the ankle-joint comes to lie between the proximal and distal tarsals in many Chelonia, the Lacertilia, the ornithopoda among ..."

3. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"The Typical ornithopoda of the American Jurassic. Amer. Journ. Sci., 3rd ser., vol. xlviii, p. 85, 1894. No locality given. Small part of the skeleton is ..."

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