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stegosauruses

stegosauruses is the plural of stegosaurus.

Meaning of stegosaurus

Noun

stegosaurus (plural stegosauruses or stegosauri)

  1. Any of the clade †Stegosauria of quadruped ornithischian dinosaurs with dorsal plates and spikes, alive during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.
    • "You will observe that both the pterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    stegosaur
  2. Any of the genus †Stegosaurus of herbivorous four-legged armored dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic, characterized by the distinctive kite-shaped upright plates along their backs and spikes on their tails.

Questions about stegosauruses

What is stegosauruses the plural of?
Stegosauruses is the plural of stegosaurus.

Words near stegosauruses in the dictionary

  1. stegosaurine
  2. stegosaurines
  3. stegosaurs
  4. stegosaurus
  5. stegosaurus-like
  6. stegosauruses
  7. stegosauruslike
  8. stegostom
  9. stegostomatal
  10. stegotext
  11. stegs

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