PSITTACOSAUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psittacosaur mean? 

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

1. primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSITTACOSAUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

psittacosaur; psittacosaurus

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

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

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

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