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DUCK-BILLED DINOSAUR

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

duck-billed dinosaur; hadrosaur; hadrosaurus

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Nouns denoting animals

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)

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