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  • adjective Sternberg (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Sternberg's ..."

Etymologies

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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Sternberg.

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Examples

  • I went down to look at their beautiful Pentaceratops sternbergi for some continued research I am doing with chasmosaurine ceratopsids.

    Archive 2008-12-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • In general form and proportions the postcranial bones are similar to those in Pentaceratops sternbergi and are not as robust as those in Torosaurus latus or Triceratops horridus.

    Finally..... ReBecca Foster 2008

  • In general form and proportions the postcranial bones are similar to those in Pentaceratops sternbergi and are not as robust as those in Torosaurus latus or Triceratops horridus.

    Archive 2008-11-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • I went down to look at their beautiful Pentaceratops sternbergi for some continued research I am doing with chasmosaurine ceratopsids.

    Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History ReBecca Foster 2008

  • He cut crosswise down the edge of Valhalla and shouldered past the crowd thronging around Sue Fritchey's prize Pteranodon sternbergi.

    Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000

  • Occasional screams and girder-bending shrieks drifted down from the enormous pteranodon sternbergi which had entered the station through an unstable gate into the era of dinosaurs.

    Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000

  • So the head of pest control, Sue Fritchey, had hatched an ambitious project to keep the big sternbergi fed: breeding her own subterranean food supply from an up-time hatchery and any down-time fingerlings they could bring in.

    Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000

  • They shouldn't be living at the same time as a sternbergi at all.

    Wagers of Sin Asprin, Robert 1996

  • Said she'd pay a downtimer to skin 'em and tan the skins for her, then maybe the big sternbergi might take a fancy to lemming meat.

    Wagers of Sin Asprin, Robert 1996

  • They'd be about the right time period and ecosystem to come through with a sternbergi.

    Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995

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