stegosaurus

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Carr's job is to help control the stegosaurus, the mother brachiosaurus and the young torosaurus as they stomp across the arena floor.

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  1. A genus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines.

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  1. herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon

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  • The stegosaurus was pink and mercifully small, one of a set whose members were mostly lost; its tail spikes made fine handles, and made it possible for him to drag it behind him without much difficulty. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 04-05 - October-November 1996
  • Ben hung around long enough to admire the princess and the stegosaurus, then headed for work while they loaded into their van for a night of trick-or-treating. —  Janice Kay Johnson - The Family Next Door
  • She was a gray stegosaurus, about forty centimeters long, and if the universe was created by Tibor, or Geraldine, or “some other idiot” (as she would have put it), Agnes was its guardian and its judge, self-appointed. —  FSFOct/Nov2004
  • I went to the Walgreens down the road to find a stegosaurus. —  Anime Nano!
  • But somehow, someway, I'm going to find myself a damn stegosaurus this year, and then subject each and ever one of you to insipid photographs of it in such places like the freezers at Star Market or the Kappa Delta toga party. —  Anime Nano!
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