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nodosaurian

nodosaurian noun: synonym of nodosaurid, any member of the family Nodosauridae, ankylosaurians without clublike tails.

Noun

nodosaurian (plural nodosaurians)

  1. Synonym of nodosaurid, any member of the family Nodosauridae, ankylosaurians without clublike tails.
    • Pinacosaurus is a common dinosaur in the Mongolian deposits. It is an ankylosaurid (member of the Family Ankylosauridae) as opposed to a nodosaurian as we saw in Sauropelta from the Cloverly in the previous lecture. Ankylosaurids differ from nodosaurians in [retention] of a primitive configuration...2000, Paul E. Olsen, Lecture 19: The Late Cretaceous I - Mongolia
    Synonyms:
    nodosaurid, any member of the family Nodosauridae, ankylosaurians without clublike tails

Synonyms of nodosaurian

  • nodosaurid
  • any member of the family Nodosauridae
  • ankylosaurians without clublike tails

Forms of nodosaurian

pluralnodosaurians

Origin of nodosaurian

From nodosaurus + -ian. Compare ankylosaurian, derived from translingual Ankylosauria.

Questions about nodosaurian

What does nodosaurian mean?
Nodosaurian means synonym of nodosaurid, any member of the family Nodosauridae, ankylosaurians without clublike tails.
What part of speech is nodosaurian?
Nodosaurian is a noun.
What is the plural of nodosaurian?
The plural of nodosaurian is nodosaurians.

Words near nodosaurian in the dictionary

  1. nodopathies
  2. nodopathy
  3. nodosarine
  4. nodosarines
  5. nodosaur
  6. nodosaurian
  7. nodosaurians
  8. nodosaurid
  9. nodosaurids
  10. nodosaurs
  11. nodose

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