ORNITHISCHIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ornithischia mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORNITHISCHIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Ornithischia; Ornithischia

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Ornithischia"):

ornithischian; ornithischian dinosaur (herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird)

genus Pisanosaurus (primitive ornithischian dinosaur found in Argentina; early Triassic)

genus Staurikosaurus (primitive ornithischian dinosaur found in Brazil)

suborder Thyreophora; Thyreophora; thyreophoran (armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs)

Marginocephalia; marginocephalian; suborder Marginocephalia (includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs)

euronithopod; Euronithopoda; Ornithopoda; suborder Euronithopoda; suborder Ornithopoda (widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon))

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

Archosauria; subclass Archosauria (a large subclass of diapsid reptiles including: crocodiles; alligators; dinosaurs; pterosaurs; plesiosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts)