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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STEGOSAUR

From Greek stegos roof + -saur.
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PRONUNCIATION OF STEGOSAUR

stegosaur  [ˈstɛɡəˌsɔː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STEGOSAUR

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stegosaur is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STEGOSAUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

stegosaur

Stegosauria

Known colloquially as stegosaurs, the Stegosauria are a group of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Periods. Stegosauria are found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, predominantly in what is now North America, Europe and China. Kentrosaurus lived in Africa. Their geographical origins are unclear; the earliest unequivocal stegosaur, Huayangosaurus, has been found in China. Stegosaurs are Thyreophora and originally did not differ much from basal members of that group, being rather small low-slung running animals, protected by armoured scutes. An early evolutionary innovation was the use of tail spikes, or "thagomizer", as a defensive weapon. Later species, belonging to the subgroup of the Stegosauridae, became larger and developed long hindlimbs which no longer allowed to run. This increased the importance of active defence by the thagomizer, which could ward off even large theropod predators because the tail was in a high position, pointing horizontally to the rear from the broad pelvis. Stegosaurids had complex arrays of vertical spikes and bony plates running along their backs, hips and tails.

Definition of stegosaur in the English dictionary

The definition of stegosaur in the dictionary is any quadrupedal herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur of the suborder Stegosauria, esp any of the genus Stegosaurus, of Jurassic and early Cretaceous times, having an armour of bony plates.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STEGOSAUR


allosaur
ˈæləˌsɔː
apatosaur
əˈpætəˌsɔː
archosaur
ˈɑːkəˌsɔː
brontosaur
ˈbrɒntəˌsɔː
carnosaur
ˈkɑːnəˌsɔː
Chickasaw
ˈtʃɪkəˌsɔː
cotylosaur
ˈkɒtɪləˌsɔː
deinosaur
ˈdaɪnəˌsɔː
dinosaur
ˈdaɪnəˌsɔː
hadrosaur
ˈhædrəˌsɔː
ichthyosaur
ˈɪkθɪəˌsɔː
mosasaur
ˈməʊsəˌsɔː
plesiosaur
ˈpliːsɪəˌsɔː
pterosaur
ˈtɛrəˌsɔː
quartersaw
ˈkwɔːtəˌsɔː
teleosaur
ˈtɛlɪəˌsɔː
titanosaur
taɪˈtænəˌsɔː
tyrannosaur
tɪˈrænəˌsɔː
vavasor
ˈvævəˌsɔː
vavassor
ˈvævəˌsɔː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STEGOSAUR

steganogram
steganographer
steganographic
steganographist
steganography
steganopod
steganopodous
stegnosis
stegnotic
stegocarpous
stegocephalian
stegocephalous
stegodon
stegodont
stegomyia
stegophilist
stegosaurian
stegosaurus

WORDS THAT END LIKE STEGOSAUR

ankylosaur
balisaur
baur
centaur
coelurosaur
daur
duck-billed dinosaur
elasmosaur
faur
gaur
Kaur
megalosaur
Minotaur
ornithosaur
pelycosaur
pliosaur
scaur
supersaur
waur
whaur

Synonyms and antonyms of stegosaur in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «stegosaur» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STEGOSAUR

Find out the translation of stegosaur to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stegosaur from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stegosaur» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

剑龙
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estegosaurio
570 millions of speakers

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stegosaur
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

stegosaur
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

stegosaur
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стегозавра
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

stegosaur
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

stegosaur
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

stégosaure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Stegosaur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

stegosaur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ステゴサウルス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

stegosaur
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stegosaur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

stegosaur
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

stegosaur
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्टीगॉसर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

stegosaur
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Stegosaur
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stegosaur
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стегозавра
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stegosaur
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

stegosaur
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stegosaur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Stegosaur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stegosaur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stegosaur

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STEGOSAUR»

The term «stegosaur» is normally little used and occupies the 139.601 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STEGOSAUR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stegosaur

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STEGOSAUR»

Discover the use of stegosaur in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stegosaur and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Stegosaur Stone
Giles, Abba and James have no idea they are about to witness a murder, or the theft of priceless stegosaur footprints.
Patricia Bernard, 2004
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The Complete Dinosaur
identified as a stegosaur by Coria and Cambiaso (2007) and Novas (2009), who provided photos of the vertebra and of a dermal plate, but Maidment et al. (2008) considered the remains to represent an indeterminate ornithischian. However ...
M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz, James Orville Farlow, 2012
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Dinosaur Sculpting: A Complete Guide, 2d ed.
the surface of the stegosaur's back, spread a very small amount of petroleum jelly thinly on the bottom edge of the sculpted osteoderms so they don't stick to the stegosaur's back. 3. Always make sure to keep your osteoderms aligned in order,  ...
Allen A. Debus, Bob Morales, Diane E. Debus, 2013
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Morrison Symposium Proceedings
stegosaur tracks are more common than the record suggests, but that they are preserved in facies that have yet to be adequately examined. Given that we now know of more than 40 dinosaur tracksites from the Morrison ( Lockley and others,  ...
Nick Fraser, 1998
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Kaplan LSAT Workbook 2015 with 1,000+ Real LSAT Questions: ...
Each of seven toy dinosaurs—an iguanadon, a lambeosaur, a plateosaur, a stegosaur, a tyrannosaur, an ultrasaur, and a velociraptor—is completely colored either green, mauve, red, or yellow. A display is to consist entirely of exactly five of ...
Kaplan, 2014
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Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History
The problem is that gastroliths have never been found with stegosaur remains, as they have with other dinosaurs (prosauro— pods, sauropods, psittacosaurs, and ornithomimosaurs). Ultimately, however, the co—existence in stegosaurs of ...
David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, 2012
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I Am Just a Baby Stegosaur
I'm just a baby stegosaur, and I'd love to be clever and bright.
Top That! Kids (Firm), 2009
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Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of Europe
Because of the lack of known stegosaur trackways prior to this discovery, track expert Tony Thulborn reconstructed a stegosaur trackway (figure 5.9). " His reconstruction (really a prediction) is very close to the French trackway, a result that ...
M. G. Lockley, Christian Meyer, 2013
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The Armored Dinosaurs
Possible Stegosaur Dermal Armor from the Lower Cretaceous of Southern England WILLIAM T. BLOWS Abstract Some dermal bones, unlike those of the better known polacanthine dinosaurs, are described. These may be from stegosaurs ...
Kenneth Carpenter, 2001
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Prehistoric Monsters: The Real and Imagined Creatures of the ...
Another genus represented by a juvenile, Dacentrurus phillipsi (described as O. phillipsi by Seeley in 1893) may be the only stegosaur known from the Oxfor- dian age. Following this discovery, in 1902, F.A. Lucas reestablished Omosaurus as ...
Allen A. Debus, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STEGOSAUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stegosaur is used in the context of the following news items.
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Stegosaur back plate mystery
Stegosaurs may have had quite different shaped plates, depending on whether they were male or female. The bony plates that ran down the backs of these ... «CBBC Newsround, Apr 15»
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Graveyard clue to stegosaur plates
Stegosaurs may have had quite different shaped plates, depending on whether they were male or female. The bony appendages that ran down the backs of ... «BBC News, Apr 15»
3
​What did Stegosaurus weigh? Now we know
Researchers at London's Natural History Museum used 3D modeling to figure out the mass of its prize Stegosaurus skeleton, the world's most complete ... «CBS News, Mar 15»
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Rare stegosaurus skeleton digitized by London museum
A recently acquired, nearly complete Stegosaurus skeleton has been digitized by researchers at the Natural History Museum in London so that the rare fossils ... «RedOrbit, Feb 15»
5
How do you buy a dinosaur?
A complete Stegosaurus fossil at the Natural History Museum in London. ... to obtain a spectacular new specimen of a Stegosaurus, the museum embarked on a ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
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Watch A Stegosaurus Skeleton Get Reassembled
After this dinosaur was buried for 150 million years, it needed some help pulling itself together. In the video above, you can watch a team of experts reassemble ... «Popular Science, Dec 14»
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Bare bones, rare bones: London's stegosaur
Reconstruction of a Stegosaurus skeleton in the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am ... the best holiday gift that anyone could possibly wish for: a Stegosaur! «The Guardian, Dec 14»
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Stegosaurus skeleton goes on display at Natural History Museum
This is the most complete stegosaur ever known. It is also the only stegosaurus on display outside of Europe. "The thing that strikes you when you first see her is ... «Evening Standard, Dec 14»
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Hot shots photos of the day: Stegosaurus, Typhoon Hagupit, world's …
His company, called Ophys, specialises in life-size reconstructions of prehistoric animals for museums and theme parks(Regis Duvignau/Reuters) stegosaur ... «International Business Times UK, Dec 14»
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Rare Stegosaurus Skeleton to Debut at London Museum
A rare skeleton of a nearly 10-foot-tall (3 meters), 150-million-year-old Stegosaurus will be unveiled at the Natural History Museum in London next month. «Yahoo News, Nov 14»

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