Meanings
comparative more stegosauruslike · superlative most stegosauruslike · alternative stegosaurus-like
- Resembling or characteristic of stegosauruses.
Lumpkin was standing all alone twenty feet away, scowling at his spare Rhino as the magnitude of the upset slowly penetrated his stegosauruslike brainpan.
2005, Allen Kurzweil, Leon and the Spitting Image, New York: Scholastic, page 1512 more examples
For the past year the Air and Space Museum had been negotiating with Pritchard as the Space Agency liaison for new material to display: lunar hoppers taken out of ser-vice, prototypes of the stegosauruslike He-3 mining rovers, Jason Dvorak's blueprints for a remodeled Columbus.
1993, Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason, Assemblers of Infinity, New York: Bantam Books, page 248The bony plates protecting his head, back, and tail had yet to grow to their full size, and there was no evidence of the spectacular, stegosauruslike plates growing from the shoulder blades, but in most ways he was an exact replica of his parent—a chip off the old block.
1998, Stephen Molstad, Godzilla: The Novelization, Boxtree, pages 220-221
Origin
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