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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various dinosaurs of the order Saurischia, having a pubic bone that points down and forward like that of modern reptiles, and including the sauropods, such as apatosaurus, and the theropods, such as T. rex.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to the Saurischia.
  • noun A member of the Saurischia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any dinosaur of the order Saurischia
  • adjective Characteristic of these dinosaurs

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Saurischia, order name : Greek sauros, lizard + Greek iskhion, hip joint.]

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