duck-billed dinosaur

[ duhk-bild ]

noun

1. hadrosaur.

duck-billed dinosaur

noun

1. another name for hadrosaur

duck-billed dinosaur

/ dŭk′bĭld′ /

1. See hadrosaur

Word History and Origins

Origin of duck-billed dinosaur¹

duck ¹ + bill ² + -ed ³

Example Sentences

The Parasaurolophus is a duck-billed dinosaur with a unique crest that lived 70 million to 80 million years ago.

From Science Daily

At first, he added, Dr. Lyson believed they belonged to a duck-billed dinosaur.

From New York Times

Some 67 million years ago, in what is now known as Slope County, North Dakota, an adolescent duck-billed dinosaur was killed and chewed up by various predators and scavengers.

From Salon

Scientists are not finished making discoveries about Dakota, a duck-billed dinosaur, and they recently unlocked a well-preserved foot, a forelimb and more of its tail from the stone encasing the fossil.

From New York Times

Limited fossil clues from relatively large but not the most massive dinosaurs permit a rough estimation of body growth rates, including relatively complete fossils of the duck-billed dinosaur Maiasaura at different stages of development.

From Scientific American