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US
/ˌtɹaɪˈsɛɹəˌtɔps/
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[ UK /tɹaɪsˈɛɹətˌɒps/ ]
[ UK /tɹaɪsˈɛɹətˌɒps/ ]
NOUN
- huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill
How To Use triceratops In A Sentence
- The huge, heavy ‘frill’ of ceratopsians such as Triceratops may have served as armor against the attacks of saurischian predators like Tyrannosaurus, which lived in the same time and place as Triceratops.
- Between them they named 130 species, doubling the number known to science, though many were so hastily identified, and based on so few bones, that they turned out to be duplicates (such as the massive herbivore apatosaurus, a.k.a brontosaurus) or mix-ups (such as the three-horned triceratops, which Marsh swore was "one of the largest of American bovines"). Forbes.com: News
- They resemble in these respects similar grooves on the antlers of moose and elk and the frill and horns of Triceratops.
- In general form and proportions the postcranial bones are similar to those in Pentaceratops sternbergi and are not as robust as those in Torosaurus latus or Triceratops horridus. Finally.....
- He's warm-blooded, or at least warm-bodied, has the wings of a bat, the tail of a stegosaurs, the spikes of a relative of a stegosaurus, the sail of a spinosaurus, and the shield of a triceratops.
- Facing it is the armoured and enormous Triceratops.
- The dinosaur, a life-sized statue of a triceratops, was showing signs of the ills that can befall fiberglass likenesses, according to the National Zoo, where it has been on display for years. Aging 'Uncle Beazley' leaves National Zoo for 'treatment'
- And while a ninja triceratops is hard to imagine working out well, a ninja oviraptor or a ninja pterodactyl could be quite deadly. Movements and Reprehensibility « Whatever
- Three prominent horns and a large frill at the back of the skull are the distinguishing characteristics of Triceratops.
- An aging diplodocus (voice of Joan Plowright) and triceratops spout sage wisdom.