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Definition of Stegosaur

1. Noun. Herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon.

Definition of Stegosaur

1. Noun. Any of several extinct herbivorous dinosaurs, of the suborder ''Stegosauria'', having two rows of bony plates along the back ¹

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Definition of Stegosaur

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Literary usage of Stegosaur

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

1. The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton (1905)
"The brain of the stegosaur was smaller than that of any land vertebrate, ... A less stupid brute than the stegosaur was Triceratops, the dinosaur of the ..."

2. The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton (1905)
"The brain of the stegosaur was smaller than that of any land vertebrate, ... A less stupid brute than the stegosaur was Triceratops, the dinosaur of the ..."

3. The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton (1905)
"The brain of the stegosaur was smaller than that of any land vertebrate, ... A less stupid brute than the stegosaur was Triceratops, the dinosaur of the ..."

4. The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton (1921)
"The brain of the stegosaur was smaller than that of any land vertebrate, ... A less stupid brute than the stegosaur was Triceratops, the dinosaur of the ..."

5. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph Le Conte (1903)
"702), an herbivorous Dinosaur allied to the stegosaur (p. 480). F1G. 701.—Compsognathus (restoration by Marsh). 3. Pterosaurs. — These flying reptiles were ..."

6. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee (1905)
"... nasicornis} seems to have been a long-tailed kangaroo-like lizard, some seventeen or eighteen feet in length. The hoofed stegosaur (stegosaurus ..."

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