ORNITHISCHIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ornithischian mean? 

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

1. herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORNITHISCHIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

ornithischian; ornithischian dinosaur

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

dinosaur (any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ornithischian"):

pisanosaur; pisanosaurus (primitive dinosaur found in Argentina)

staurikosaur; staurikosaurus (primitive dinosaur found in Brazil)

armored dinosaur (dinosaurs having bony armour)

bone-headed dinosaur (bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns)

ceratopsian; horned dinosaur (any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia)

ornithopod; ornithopod dinosaur (bipedal herbivorous dinosaur)

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 ("ornithischian" is a member of...):

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