ankylosaur

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  1. noun A large herbivorous dinosaur of the Cretaceous Period, having a squat, heavily armored body and a clubbed tail.

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  • Then Andrew the ankylosaur, escorted by four trainers with electric prods. —  FSF,July2008
  • "Compared to an ankylosaur, titanosaur armor wasn't much good against a predator," says Currie, an expert on predatory dinosaurs. —  Omni: May 1993
  • Osborn's famous tyrant showed no sign of being covered with armor, and the bony body covering turned out to belong to an ankylosaur. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • The new dinosaur, a species of ankylosaur, is documented in the October issue of the —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • In his new reconstruction, Parsons suggests that Tatankacephalus exhibited complex and colorful patterns rather than the dull appearance suggested in earlier ankylosaur portraits. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
 

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  1. New Latin Ankylosaurus, genus name : Greek ankulos, crooked, bent + Greek sauros, lizard.
 

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