GENUS PSITTACOSAURUS

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Meaning:

Most primitive genus of horned dinosaurs; early Cretaceous

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Psittacosaurus" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "genus Psittacosaurus"):

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 ("genus Psittacosaurus" is a member of...):

Ceratopsia; suborder Ceratopsia (horned dinosaurs)

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