The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἁδρός“strong”
- English todayhadrosaur
Back-formation from Hadrosauridae, from the type genus Hadrosaurus, which in turn was derived from Ancient Greek ἁδρός (hadrós, “strong”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἁδρός all →
hadro-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.