Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hadrosaurid dinosaur of the genus Hadrosaurus, having a bulky body and no crest on the head. A hadrosaurus fossil found in New Jersey (1858) was the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton excavated in the United States.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of dinosaurian reptiles, typical of the family Hadrosauridæ. The original species of these gigantic iguanodons was H. foulki, from Haddonfield in New Jersey.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Dis hadrosaurus wawkz n2 uh bar, n himz askiz teh bartindur, “Gotz enny graypfrootz?”
If you’re gonna be one of us - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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But they're not as studied as much as the predatory dinosaurs, such as t-rex, which was the contemporary of the hadrosaurus.
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"Apparently they have decided we need these," and she pushed at the hadrosaurus nuts with a sour expression on her face.
Survivors McCaffrey, Anne 1984
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I glanced over - and having taken a year of paleontology as part of my geology undergraduate studies - felt fairly confident that it was a hadrosaurus.
The Amazing Trips 2010
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It wasn't until he was watching Dinosaur Train on PBS that he just so happened to see that that what he had been told was a hadrosaurus was actually a parasaurolophus (!!!!) and his faith in my dinosaur knowledge was terribly shaken.
The Amazing Trips 2010
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For the next few days, he pretended to be a hadrosaurus.
The Amazing Trips 2010
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The finds included remains of a 20-metre hadrosaurus, which could be a record size for the duck-billed dinosaur, Xinhua said.
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The finds included remains of a 20-metre hadrosaurus, which could be a record size for the duck-billed dinosaur, Xinhua said.
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Tyrannosaurus rex (the famous predator from the Late Cretaceous of North America) stalking a group of, one of the largest hadrosaurus known from the Late Cretaceous of China.
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