iguanodon
a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Iguanodon that lived in Europe early in the Cretaceous Period and grew to a length of from 15 to 30 feet (4.5 to 9 meters) and walked erect on its hind feet.
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People just said, oh it’s just another iguanodon, put it in a box.
An overlooked fossil turned out to be a new herbivorous dinosaur with an oddly shaped nose | Philip Kiefer | November 11, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIn some of them such as Stegosaurus the exoskeleton is strongly developed, in others such as iguanodon it is absent.
The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. ReynoldsIt was carnivorous, and therefore more ferocious than the iguanodon, and more ready to attack.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder | James De MilleThe American Hadrosaurus must have decidedly resembled the iguanodon.
Extinct Monsters | H. N. Hutchinson"I think it can have been no other than the iguanodon," said the doctor.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder | James De Mille
Yet the iguanodon was thirty feet long, with a thigh six feet, and a body fourteen feet in circumference.
The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences | Edward Hitchcock
British Dictionary definitions for iguanodon
/ (ɪˈɡwɑːnəˌdɒn) /
a massive herbivorous long-tailed bipedal dinosaur of the genus Iguanodon, common in Europe and N Africa in Jurassic and Cretaceous times: suborder Ornithopoda (ornithopods)
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