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ˈstɛg əˌsɔrstegosaur
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Princeton's WordNet
stegosaur, stegosaurus, Stegosaur stenopsnoun
herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon
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stegosaurnoun
Any of several extinct herbivorous dinosaurs, of the suborder Stegosauria, having two rows of bony plates along the back
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stegosaur
Stegosauria is a group of herbivorous ornithischian dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods. Stegosaurian fossils have been found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, predominantly in what is now North America, Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. Their geographical origins are unclear; the earliest unequivocal stegosaurian, Huayangosaurus taibaii, lived in China. Stegosaurians were armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans). Originally, they did not differ much from more primitive members of that group, being small, low-slung, running animals protected by armored scutes. An early evolutionary innovation was the development of spikes as defensive weapons. Later species, belonging to a subgroup called the Stegosauridae, became larger, and developed long hindlimbs that no longer allowed them to run. This increased the importance of active defence by the thagomizer, which could ward off even large predators because the tail was in a higher position, pointing horizontally to the rear from the broad pelvis. Stegosaurids had complex arrays of spikes and plates running along their backs, hips and tails. The first stegosaurian finds in the early 19th century were fragmentary. Better fossil material, of the genus Dacentrurus, was discovered in 1874 in England. Soon after, in 1877, the first nearly-complete skeleton was discovered in the United States. Professor Othniel Charles Marsh that year classified such specimens in the new genus Stegosaurus, from which the group acquired its name, and which is still by far the most famous stegosaurian. During the latter half of the twentieth century, many important Chinese finds were made, representing about half of the presently known diversity of stegosaurians.
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stegosaur
A stegosaur is a type of herbivorous dinosaur from the late Jurassic Period that is most recognizable by its unique features such as its small head, large body, short forelimbs, long hind limbs, and a row of distinctive large, flat, vertical plates running along its back, as well as a pair of spikes near the end of its tail. Stegosaurus is the most famous kind of stegosaur.
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The numerical value of stegosaur in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of stegosaur in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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- estegosaureCatalan, Valencian
- StegosaurierGerman
- estegosaurioSpanish
- stégosaureFrench
- steigeasárIrish
- 스테고사우르스Korean
- estegossauroPortuguese
- стегозаврRussian
- stegosaurus, stegosaurieSwedish
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