Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various theropod dinosaurs of the group Ceratosauria of the Triassic and Jurassic Periods, often with a crest or horn on the head, and including coelophysis and dilophosaurus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Paleon.) the ceratosaurus.

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  • noun zoology Any of many dinosaurs of the infraorder Ceratosauria

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  • noun primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Cerātosauria, group name, after Cerātosaurus, type genus : Greek keras, kerāt-, horn; see ker- in Indo-European roots + Greek sauros, lizard.]

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Examples

  • So, I'm still processing the news of the discovery of hard evidence of an enormous lake that existed in the Martian Shalbatana Vallis region some 3.4 billion years ago, when I get word of an exciting new herbivorous Chinese ceratosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis.

    "This flood will swallow all you've left behind." greygirlbeast 2009

  • My previous repost was made to give the background on a recent discovery of Jurassic ceratosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis, and what it tells us about digit evolution.

    The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives 2010

  • My previous repost was made to give the background on a recent discovery of Jurassic ceratosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis, and what it tells us about digit evolution.

    The Panda's Thumb: Development Archives 2010

  • Limusaurus is the first ceratosaur known from East Asia and one of the most primitive members of the group.

    innovations-report 2009

  • This is a Jurassic ceratosaur, so it says that this is from the Jurassic (~2348 BC).

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2009

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  • One for you, chained_bear.

    February 6, 2009