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stegosaurus

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See also: Stegosaurus

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Etymology

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From the genus name Stegosaurus. From Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, roof) + σαῦρος (saûros, lizard).

Noun

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stegosaurus (plural stegosauruses or stegosauri)

  1. A stegosaur, a member of the suborder Stegosauria, of the order Ornithischia of the middle Jurassic to early Cretaceous period.
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World [], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      "You will observe that both the pterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life."
    • 1988 April 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      So you tell your friends about it, including the people who have no interest in birding and wouldn't know a Le Conte's sparrow from a stegosaurus.
  2. A member of the genus Stegosaurus within this suborder.

Translations

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from New Latin stegosaurus

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsteɡosɑu̯rus/, [ˈs̠te̞ɡo̞ˌs̠ɑ̝u̯rus̠]
  • Rhymes: -ɑurus
  • Hyphenation(key): ste‧go‧sau‧rus

Noun

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stegosaurus

  1. stegosaurus

Declension

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Possessive forms of stegosaurus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)