ankylosaur
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9.9
- noun
- /ˌæŋkɪˈloʊsɔr/
- Specialized
:
ankilosaurio
- Fossils of the ankylosaur have been discovered in many locations across North America.
- a new ankylosaur
So ornithskins will be your group that includes your triceratops and ankylosaurs and things like that.
- So ornithskins will be your group that includes your triceratops and ankylosaurs and things like that.
Examples
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Scientists believe the ankylosaur used its club-like tail to defend itself against attacks.
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Look, there are those ankylosaurs I was telling you about.
Fiction book (1991) -
Last June, Miles, along with scientists at the Denver Museum of Natural History, published a paper in Nature about a skull he found that turned out to be a new species of ankylosaur.
Academic text (1998) -
I know where there's a bunch of ankylosaurs wallowing around.
Fiction book (1991) -
We see armored ankylosaurs with clubbed tails.
Fiction book (2001) -
The ankylosaur had a heavily armoured body that protected it from predators.
Synonyms
A large plant-eating dinosaur with heavy armor and a clubbed tail
A dinosaur with bony plates on its body for protection
How Armored
Surface Forms
Morphology
ankylosaur = ankylos + saur
Formed from Greek combining stems (ankylos- + -saur) that are not productive standalone English words; an average B1 learner cannot derive the meaning from these parts.
Etymology
Ankylosaur comes from two parts: ankyl- meaning 'fused' or 'joined' and -saur meaning 'lizard', the same -saur you see in dinosaur. So an ankylosaur is like a 'fused lizard' with heavy armour plates and a club tail, which explains its meaning as a heavily armoured dinosaur.