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ankylosaurine

Today it means: Any member of the subfamily Ankylosaurinae, herbaceous dinosaurs closely related to ankylosaurus. Full definition →

taxonomic name Ankylosaurinae ← New Latin -inae

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New Latin · borrowed from-inae“-ine”
taxonomic name · borrowed fromAnkylosaurinae
English todayankylosaurine

From taxonomic name Ankylosaurinae, from Ankylosaurus + New Latin -inae (“-ine”), equivalent to ankylosaur + -ine.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.