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語源

From the genus name Stegosaurus. From Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

発音

• IPA: /ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːɹəs/

名詞

stegosaurus (plural stegosauruses or stegosauri)

1. Any of the clade †Stegosauria of quadruped ornithischian dinosaurs with dorsal plates and spikes, alive during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.

   Synonym: stegosaur

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "You will observe that both the pterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life."

   • 1988 April 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     So you tell your friends about it, including the people who have no interest in birding and wouldn't know a Le Conte's sparrow from a stegosaurus.

2. (in particular) Any of the genus †Stegosaurus of herbivorous four-legged armored dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic, characterized by the distinctive kite-shaped upright plates along their backs and spikes on their tails.

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