duck-billed dinosaur

[duhk-bild]

noun

1. hadrosaur.

duck-billed dinosaur

noun

1. another name for hadrosaur

duck-billed dinosaur

1. See hadrosaur

Word History and Origins

Origin of duck-billed dinosaur¹

duck ¹ + bill ² + -ed ³

Example Sentences

The Parasaurolophus is a duck-billed dinosaur with a unique crest that lived 70 million to 80 million years ago.

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At first, he added, Dr. Lyson believed they belonged to a duck-billed dinosaur.

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Some 67 million years ago, in what is now known as Slope County, North Dakota, an adolescent duck-billed dinosaur was killed and chewed up by various predators and scavengers.

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Scientists are not finished making discoveries about Dakota, a duck-billed dinosaur, and they recently unlocked a well-preserved foot, a forelimb and more of its tail from the stone encasing the fossil.

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Limited fossil clues from relatively large but not the most massive dinosaurs permit a rough estimation of body growth rates, including relatively complete fossils of the duck-billed dinosaur Maiasaura at different stages of development.

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