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Definition: Stegosaurus |
StegosaurusNoun1. Herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stegosaurus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1912. (references) |
Synonym: StegosaurusSynonym: stegosaur (n). (additional references) |
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The stegosaurus (genus Stegosaurus) was a large herbivorous dinosaur which flourished in the Late Jurassic period. Its name is derived from Greek roots, and means roofed lizard.
The stegosaurus is one of the most popular dinosaurs in children's fiction, and one of the most easily identifiable, owing to the distinctive double row of kite-shaped plates along its back and four long spikes on its tail. The plates have blood vessels running through grooves in them.
It is often said that the stegosaurus had a "brain the size of a walnut". It is thought to have had a secondary nerve centre on the lower spinal cord (often misleadingly described as a "second brain") to control the legs and tail.
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Crosswords: Stegosaurus |
| English words defined with "stegosaurus": Stegosauria. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "stegosaurus": Stegosauria. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Stegosaurus" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (stegosaur). |
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| "Stegosaurus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Stegosaurus" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "stegosaurus": genus Stegosaurus. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stegosaurus | 141 |
picture of a stegosaurus | 6 |
dinosaur stegosaurus | 3 |
fact stegosaurus | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stegosaurus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ステアリン酸 (dance step, stacker, state, status, steal, stearic acid, Stegodon, step, step-by-step, stepfamily, steppe, stepping, steps, stick, sticker, stinger, stitch, thingirl). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ステゴザウルス . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | egosaurusstay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | stegos. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "stegosaurus": stegosauruses. (additional references) | |
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"Stegosaurus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stegasaurus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stegosaurus" (pronounced ste'gusô"rus) |
| 6 | -u s ô" r u s | Brontosaurus, thesaurus, Tyrannosaurus. |
| 5 | -s ô" r u s | sorus. |
| 4 | -ô" r u s | chorus, maquiladoras, Morris, porous. |
| 3 | -r u s | actress, ambassadress, ambidextrous, arris, buttress, Cirrus, citrus, congress, Cypress, Cyprus, cytomegalovirus, desirous, dextrous, disastrous, embarrass, estrous, estrus, ferrous, fibrous, fortress, hantavirus, headmistress, heiress, hubris, huntress, hydrous, idolatrous, Iris, ludicrous, lustrous, Madras, mattress, mistress, monstrous, nitrous, nonferrous, ogress, polyandrous, puris, retrovirus, seamstress, temptress, terrace, virus, waitress, walrus, wondrous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-o-r-s-s-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: stegosaurs, trousseaus. | |
-2 letters: outargues, outgasses, rousseaus, stegosaur, trousseau. | |
-3 letters: auguster, grossest, outargue, outguess, outrages, rousseau, storages, tussores. | |
-4 letters: aerugos, arguses, arouses, asserts, assorts, assures, auteurs, estrous, garotes, gaseous, gassers, gasters, gausses, grasses, grosses, grouses, gussets, gustoes, oestrus, orgeats, ousters, outages, outrage, ragouts, rugosas, russets, saroses, saugers, serosas, sourest, souters, stagers, storage, stoures, sutures, tossers. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-o-r-s-s-s-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: stegosauruses. | |
+3 letters: gratuitousness, outrageousness. | |
+4 letters: slaughterhouses. | |
+5 letters: gratuitousnesses, outrageousnesses. | |
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