CORYTHOSAUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corythosaur mean? 

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

1. duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORYTHOSAUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

corythosaur; corythosaurus

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

duck-billed dinosaur; hadrosaur; hadrosaurus (any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic)

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

genus Corythosaurus (genus of duck-billed dinosaurs of late Cretaceous)