CERATOPSIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ceratopsian mean? 

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

1. any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CERATOPSIAN (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

ceratopsian; horned dinosaur

Hypernyms ("ceratopsian" 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 "ceratopsian"):

protoceratops (small horned dinosaur)

triceratops (huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill)

styracosaur; styracosaurus (an unusual ceratopsian dinosaur having many large spikes around the edge of its bony frill and a long nose horn; late Cretaceous)

psittacosaur; psittacosaurus (primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal)

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

Ceratopsia; suborder Ceratopsia (horned dinosaurs)