Stegosaurus
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- noun
- /ˌstɛɡəˈsɔrəs/
- Specialized
:
estegosaurio
- The hogback's profile against the sky was more like a stegosaurus than a pig.
Examples
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"I would get a stegosaurus," Terry said.
Fiction book (1998) -
The stegosaurus was twenty feet long, with a huge bulky body and vertical armor plates along its back.
Fiction book (1990) -
Sometimes it's the skeleton of a stegosaurus that has turned to stone.
Blog text (32) -
I dreamed that I saw a stegosaurus.
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The baby stegosaurus seemed to enjoy the peas and carrots.
Fiction book (1998) -
Do you realize more time had elapsed between the extinction of the Stegosaurus and T Rex then the extinction of T Rex and today?
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This temple was also used as a location for Tomb Raider and houses a strange carving that looks like a stegosaurus.
Blog text (3) -
As the Land Cruiser came to a stop, Ellie Sattler stared through the plumes of steam at the stegosaurus.
Fiction book (1990) -
The stegosaurus is known for its distinctive plate-like structures along its back.
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Paleontologists recently discovered a well-preserved stegosaurus fossil in the desert.
Synonyms
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A large plant-eating dinosaur with upright bony plates along its back and a spiked tail
A dinosaur that eats plants and has bony back plates or spikes
Compounds
- Specialized
A large plant-eating dinosaur with upright plates on its back and a spiked tail
Surface Forms
Morphology
Stegosaurus = stego + saurus
A technical taxonomic name built from Greek combining forms that are not productive or recognizable to typical learners, so the meaning cannot be reliably derived from the parts.
Etymology
Stegosaurus comes from two Greek parts, stego- meaning 'roof' and -saurus meaning 'lizard'. Think of the plates on its back like a row of roof tiles, so the name 'roof lizard' helps you remember this large dinosaur with plates along its back and spikes on its tail.