Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs of the family Hadrosauridae of the Cretaceous Period, having a broad toothless beak, numerous teeth in the back of the jaw, a stiff tail, and sometimes a crest on the head.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Hadrosauridæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any of the
family Hadrosauridae ofduck-billed dinosaurs ; ahadrosaur .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the photo above, Luis is holding a caudal vertebra from a hadrosaurid that bears a deep score mark across its surface.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The pair discovered tooth marks on a femur bone from a Champsosaurus, an aquatic reptile that grew up to five feet long; the rib of a dinosaur, most likely a hadrosaurid or ceratopsid; the femur of another large dinosaur that was likely an ornithischian; and a lower jaw bone from a small marsupial.
Science Blog 2010
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The pair discovered tooth marks on a femur bone from a Champsosaurus, an aquatic reptile that grew up to five feet long; the rib of a dinosaur, most likely a hadrosaurid or ceratopsid; the femur of another large dinosaur that was likely an ornithischian; and a lower jaw bone from a small marsupial.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The pair discovered tooth marks on a femur bone from a Champsosaurus, an aquatic reptile that grew up to five feet long; the rib of a dinosaur, most likely a hadrosaurid or ceratopsid; the femur of another large dinosaur that was likely an ornithischian; and a lower jaw bone from a small marsupial.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Telmatosaurus is placed as the basal hadrosaurid, the sister taxon to the Lambeosaurinae-Hadrosaurinae clade.
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Telmatosaurus is placed as the basal hadrosaurid, the sister taxon to the Lambeosaurinae-Hadrosaurinae clade.
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The findings also include the remains of a 20 meter (66 ft) hadrosaurid, a record size for the duck-billed dinosaur.
Formae Mentis NGO™ 2009
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Three tyrannosaurs and a hadrosaurid dinosaur have also been found to have such soft-tissue-like structures.
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This particular fossil came from a hadrosaurid (duck-billed dinosaur), so I guess I'm boning them first.
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This particular fossil came from a hadrosaurid (duck-billed dinosaur), so I guess I'm boning them first.
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