CERATOPSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ceratopsia mean? 

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

1. horned dinosaurs

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CERATOPSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Horned dinosaurs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ceratopsia; suborder Ceratopsia

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Ceratopsia"):

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

Ceratopsidae; family Ceratopsidae (American ceratopsian dinosaurs)

genus Protoceratops (small horned dinosaurs)

genus Triceratops (genus of herbivorous horned dinosaurs)

genus Styracosaurus (genus of horned dinosaurs)

genus Psittacosaurus (most primitive genus of horned dinosaurs; early Cretaceous)

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

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