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Definition of Ornithopoda
1. Noun. Widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon).
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Order Ornithischia, Ornithischia
Member holonyms: Ornithopod, Ornithopod Dinosaur, Family Hadrosauridae, Hadrosauridae, Genus Trachodon, Family Iguanodontidae, Iguanodontidae
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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ornithopoda
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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