ARMORED DINOSAUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does armored dinosaur mean? 

• ARMORED DINOSAUR (noun)
  The noun ARMORED DINOSAUR has 1 sense:

1. dinosaurs having bony armour

  Familiarity information: ARMORED DINOSAUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMORED DINOSAUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dinosaurs having bony armour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("armored dinosaur" is a kind of...):

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

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

stegosaur; Stegosaur stenops; stegosaurus (herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon)

ankylosaur; ankylosaurus (having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's)

Holonyms ("armored dinosaur" is a member of...):

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