Etymology

nodosaurid

N1O1D2O1S1A1U1R1I1D2

Today it means: Any member of the family †Nodosauridae, ankylosaurians without clublike tails. Full definition →

translingual Nodosauridae ← New Latin nodosaurus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. New Latin · borrowed fromnodosaurus
  2. translingual · borrowed fromNodosauridae
  3. English todaynodosaurid

From translingual Nodosauridae, from New Latin nodosaurus + -idae, equivalent to nodosaur + -id.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.