Definition of Thyreophora

1. Noun. Armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Thyreophora

Thurs
Thursday
Thursdays
Thurston
Thurston's geometrization conjecture
Thy
Thy 1 glycoprotein
Thygeson's disease
Thylacinus
Thylacinus cynocephalus
Thylogale
Thymelaeaceae
Thymelaeales
Thymus serpyllum
Thymus vulgaris
Thyreophora (current term)
Thyrsopteris elegans
Thyrza
Thysanocarpus
Thysanosoma actinoides
Ti
Ti.
Ti plasmid
Tia Maria
Tiamat
Tian'anmen
Tian'anmen Square
Tian Shan
Tiana

Literary usage of Thyreophora

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization: Arranged in by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1832)
"... the articulations of the tarsi enlarged; antennae short; last articulation lenticular; sides of the face hairy. Thyreophora, Lat., Meig., Musca, Panz. ..."

2. An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects: Founded on the by John Obadiah Westwood (1840)
"Thyreophora Latr. MOSCA Pz. ! sp. T. furcata Meig. Pz. 24. 22. Elongate; palpi spatulate; forehead very wide, advanced over the ..."

3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1899)
"... —Thyreophora, Latr. Gen. ch.—Head sub-trigonal ; eyes small, round, and nude ; face very oblique, antenna? short, with bare arista ; oral setae several ..."

4. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1879)
"... the same facts having previously been observed by Pallas. The head of the rare and remarkable fly Thyreophora ..."

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