thescelosaur

English

Etymology

From translingual Thescelosaurinae.

Noun

thescelosaur (plural thescelosaurs)

1. Any dinosaur of the subfamily Thescelosaurinae.
   • 2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American‎^[1]:

     So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.