Meanings
nounthescelosaur (plural thescelosaurs)
plural thescelosaurs
- Any dinosaur of the subfamily Thescelosaurinae.
So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.
2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American
Origin
- translingualThescelosaurinae
- Englishthescelosaur
From translingual Thescelosaurinae.
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thescelosaur. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thescelosaur
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thescelosaur,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thescelosaur.
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