Etymology

parasaurolophus

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Today it means: Parasaurolophus, a herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of what is now North America that walked both as a biped and a quadruped. Full definition →

taxonomic name Parasaurolophus
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  1. taxonomic name · learned borrowing fromParasaurolophus
  2. English todayparasaurolophus

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Parasaurolophus; see there for more.

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