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stegosaur

noun

stego·​saur ˈste-gə-ˌsȯr How to pronounce stegosaur (audio)
: any of a suborder (Stegosauria) of quadrupedal ornithischian herbivorous dinosaurs chiefly of the Jurassic with strongly developed dorsal plates and spikes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web And paleontologists have found the oldest stegosaur in Africa, named Adratiklit boulahfa, in the same deposits, indicating that both stegosaurs and ankylosaurs were living in the same places long before the days of Stegosaurus. Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2022 In another, a T. rex lunges at the neck of a stegosaur. Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022 Maidment was part of a team that discovered Adratiklit boulahfa, a 168 million-year-old stegosaur fossil found in Morocco in 2019. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022 For the first time, researchers traced dinosaur footprints along the island's northeastern coast and discovered that stegosaurs were part of this community. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Mar. 2020 However, this may not mean that stegosaurs were uncommon in Gondwana. Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019 The British news publication reports that the specimen is the first stegosaur to be found in North Africa. Fox News, 22 Aug. 2019 In recent years, London’s Natural History Museum has become a hub of stegosaur research. Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019 Also included in the find is the first evidence of the existence of stegosaurs in Australia, and some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever discovered, measuring up to 5.5 feet long. Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2017 See More

Word History

Etymology

New Latin Stegosauria, from Stegosaurus

First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of stegosaur was in 1897
BNC: 0 COCA: 41977

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