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ORNITHOPODA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon)

Synonyms:

euronithopod; Euronithopoda; Ornithopoda; suborder Euronithopoda; suborder Ornithopoda

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Nouns denoting animals

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Ornithopoda"):

ornithopod; ornithopod dinosaur (bipedal herbivorous dinosaur)

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

genus Trachodon (a reptile genus of the suborder Euronithopoda)

family Iguanodontidae; Iguanodontidae (iguanodons)

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

order Ornithischia; Ornithischia (extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods))

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