pachycephalosaur

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English

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Etymology

From the New Latin genus name Pachycephalosaurus, equivalent to pachy- (“thick”) +‎ cephalo- (“head”) +‎ -saur (“lizard”).

Noun

pachycephalosaur (plural pachycephalosaurs)

  1. Any of a group of herbivorous dinosaurs, of the genus Pachycephalosaurus from the late Cretaceous period.
    • 2016 September 28, David Hone, “‘Three-eyed’ extinct reptile was a bone-headed dinosaur mimic 100 million years early”, in The Guardian‎:
      One could almost call Triopticus a mimic were it not for the fact that it dates to 228-220 million years ago, meaning that it predates the pachycephalosaurs by over 100 million years.

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