Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A medium-sized carnivorous theropod dinosaur of the genus Dilophosaurus of the Jurassic Period, characterized by a pair of crests on the head.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin Dilophosaurus, genus name : Greek di-, two; see di– + Greek lophos, crest of a helmet + Greek sauros, lizard.]
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A battle over a missing allosaurus and dilophosaurus and a banged-up stegosaurus raged this week in a courtroom at the Law School on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.
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