DUCK-BILLED DINOSAUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does duck-billed dinosaur mean? 

• DUCK-BILLED DINOSAUR (noun)
  The noun DUCK-BILLED DINOSAUR has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic

  Familiarity information: DUCK-BILLED DINOSAUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUCK-BILLED DINOSAUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

duck-billed dinosaur; hadrosaur; hadrosaurus

Hypernyms ("duck-billed 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 "duck-billed dinosaur"):

anatotitan (one of the largest and most famous duck-billed dinosaurs)

corythosaur; corythosaurus (duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet)

edmontosaurus (duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin)

trachodon; trachodont (large duck-billed dinosaur of the Cretaceous period)

Holonyms ("duck-billed dinosaur" is a member of...):

family Hadrosauridae; Hadrosauridae (duck-billed dinosaurs; upper Cretaceous)

 Context examples 

The scientists reached this conclusion by comparing CT scans of the teeth of dinosaur embryos of two different species, the Protoceratops andrewsi, which has eggs weighing under 200 grams, and Hypacrosaurus stebingeri, a type of duck-billed dinosaur that has eggs twenty times that size.

(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)

A joint research team from the University of Calgary, American Museum of Natural History, and Florida State University announced Monday that the eggs of non-avian dinosaurs such as the duck-billed dinosaur took as long as six months to hatch, far longer than had previously been believed.

(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)