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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various herbivorous ornithiscian dinosaurs of the group Marginocephalia of the Cretaceous Period, characterized by a bony shelf or frill at the back of the skull and including the ceratopsians and the pachycephalosaurians.
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- adjective zoology Of or relating to the Marginocephalia, a
clade ofornithischian dinosaurs .
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- noun includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Marginocephalia, group name : Latin margō, margin-, margin; see margin + Greek kephalē, head; see cephalic.]
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Marginocephalia + -an
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