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Webster 1913 Edition
Hylaeosaurus
{
Hy′læ-o-saurˊ
, ‖Hyˊlæ-o-sau′rus
, }Noun.
[NL.
hylaeosaurus
, fr. Gr. [GREEK] belonging to a forest (fr. [GREEK] wood) + [GREEK] a lizard.] (Paleon.)
A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.
Definition 2024
Hylaeosaurus
Hylaeosaurus
See also: hylaeosaurus and Hylæosaurus
Translingual
Proper noun
Hylaeosaurus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Polacanthidae – a herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived about 165 million years ago during the Cretaceous period.
Hypernyms
- (dinosaur): nodosaurid, ankylosaurian, dinosaur
hylaeosaurus
hylaeosaurus
See also: Hylaeosaurus and Hylæosaurus
English
Noun
hylaeosaurus (plural hylaeosauri)
- A herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived about 165 million years ago during the Cretaceous period}}
Hypernyms
- (dinosaur): nodosaurid, ankylosaurian, dinosaur