Ornithopoda

Ornithopoda
noun
widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon)
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ornithischia, ↑order Ornithischia
• Member Meronyms:

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I. \\ˌȯ(r)nəˈthäpədə\ noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from ornith- + -poda
: a suborder of the order Ornithischia comprising bipedal dinosaurs having distinctly digitigrade hind limbs usually with only three functional toes which are blunt and having also hollow limb bones, a fourth trochanter on the femur, and no dermal armor
II.
Etymology: New Latin, from ornith- + -poda
synonym of ornithischia

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