Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dinosaur of the order Ornithischia, having a pelvic structure similar to that of birds.
- adj. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the order Ornithischia.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or having the characters of the group of dinosaurs named Ornithischia by Seeley; having the bones of the pelvis like those of a bird.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of a group of dinosaurs, of the order Ornithischia, that have hips characteristic of birds
WordNet 3.0
- n. herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird
Etymologies
- From New Latin Ornīthischia, order name : ornith(o)- + Greek iskhion, hip joint. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Named Fruitadens haagarorum, this tiny ornithischian was likely an omnivore, like other heterodontosaurids.”
“A tiny new "feathered" ornithischian dinosaur from China, the Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid Tianyulong confuciusi.”
“Oh, I've also slowly been making my way through the new (September) issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, and have read, over the past few days, "A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kuwajima Formation of Japan," "The anatomy and systematics of Colepiocephale lambei [Dinosauria: Pachychephalosauridae]," and "Rapid somatic expansion causes the brain to lag behind: the case of the brain and behavior of New Zealand's Haast's Eagle [Harpagornis moorei].”
“I've been making my way through the September 2008 Journal of Paleontology, and so there was "A new desmatosuchine aetosaur (Archosauria; Suchia) from the Upper Triassic Tecovas Formation (Dockum Group) of Texas," "A juvenile skull of the primitive African ornithischian dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki from the 'Stormberg' of South Africa," and "The anatomy, affinity, and phylogenetic significance of Illemoraspis kirkinskayae (Osteostraci) from the Devonian of Siberia.”
"The lengths that I will go to, the distance in your eyes..."
“Yesterday, I began reading Joan Druett's She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea (2000), and also read "A juvenile skull of the primitive ornithischian dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki from the 'Stromberg' of South Africa" (from the September 2008 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology).”
“This week saw the announcement of the earth shaking Tianyulong confuciusi, an ornithischian with feather like structures!”
“Digital preparation of a probable neoceratopsian preserved within an egg, with comments on microstructural anatomy of ornithischian eggshells.”
“Two ornithischian dinosaurs renamed: Microceratops Bohlin 1953 and Diceratops Lull 1905.”
“Two ornithischian dinosaurs renamed; Microceratops Bohlin 1953 and Diceratops Lull 1905.”
“Stegosaurian footprints from the Morrison Formation of Utah and their implications for interpreting other ornithischian tracks.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ornithischian’.
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Dinosaurs, extended
At first, this was a list for things found in Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History by David E. Fastovsky. But now it's degenerated a bit to contain anything dinosaur or fossil related.
disarticulate, body fossil, trace fossil, apatite, soft anatomy, permineralization, replacement, articulated, disarticulated, intestine’s-eye view, ichnofossil, paleoenvironment and 270 more...
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Dinosaurs
Just the animals themselves. (See the other gigantic tar-pit of a list called "Words of Dinosaurology" for other terms.) Also see this list for some dinosaurs that are considered "proto-birds."
aachenosaurus, abelisaurus, abrictosaurus, abrosaurus, acanthopholis, acanthostega, achelousaurus, acrocanthosaurus, actiosaurus, adasaurus, aeolosaurus, aegyptosaurus and 589 more...
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Alaric's Words
chelation, bradykinetic, twelfth, dank, kulak, oneiric, cathexis, yonder, quern, lissome, naiad, krakatoan and 124 more...
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