PSITTACOSAUR

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

psittacosaur; psittacosaurus

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Nouns denoting animals

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)

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