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Definition: Triceratops |
TriceratopsNoun1. Huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Screenplays | What does that make me think of? Makes me think of a triceratops, innocently munching a palm frond when out of the sky, whammo, a meteor sucker punches old mother Earth. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Triceratops was discovered by John Bell Hatcher in 1888. Its declaration as a legitimate dinosaur came when an intact skull was found. Previous to this, it was misidentified as a type of buffalo.
The Triceratops is a part of the Ceratopsids family which included dinosaurus very semiliar to the Triceratops and only differ in size and skull shape. For example: Torosaurus, Protoceratops, Pentceratops etc.
The Triceratops belongs to the Ornithiscians dinosaurs (means: "bird's hip") and was walking on four. It length was estimated between 8-11 meters and his weight moved between the 5-8 tons. Paleontologists believe that Triceratops lived in herds like dinosaurian buffalo or mooses. Its food was plants and shrubbery and it used its beak to cut down branches with leafs. Behind the beak the Triceratops had 2 line of teeth, sharp as guillotine, which cut down the food when the Triceratop chew the food.
The Triceratops had very large skull filled with hugh muscels and hard bones. The Triceratops had one short horn above its nose and two long horns above its eyebrows. The skull ended with a large boney feril which protected the neck.
Scientist think that the horns and the feril were used for serveral purposes:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Triceratops."
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| "Triceratops" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "Triceratops" is used about 11 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 (plural) | 63.64% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 36.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
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Expression using "triceratops": genus Triceratops. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
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triceratops | 151 |
picture of triceratops | 7 |
dinosaur triceratops | 6 |
killing triceratops tyrannosaurus | 6 |
horridus triceratops | 5 |
information triceratops | 4 |
dinosaurio triceratops | 2 |
coloring page triceratops | 2 |
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Words beginning with "triceratops": triceratopses. (additional references) | |
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"Triceratops" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: triceratop, tricyeratops. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "triceratops" (pronounced trī'se"rutô'ps) |
| 4 | -t ô' p s | treetops. |
| 3 | -ô' p s | cyclops. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tetrasporic. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-o-p-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: carrotiest. | |
-2 letters: operatics, oratrices, portraits, priorates, prostatic, prostrate, protracts, retroacts, spectator, trisector. | |
-3 letters: airports, apricots, carports, citators, citrates, cottiers, creators, crispate, cristate, critters, ectopias, erratics, operatic, paretics, partiers, patriots, perisarc, picrates, pierrots, piscator, portrait, postrace, practise, praetors, priorate, prorates, prostate, protatic, protects, protract, reactors, rescript, restrict, retracts, retroact, ricottas, rostrate, rotaries, scattier, scripter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-o-p-r-r-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: practitioners, precipitators, procrastinate, stratospheric, triceratopses, trichopterans. | |
+3 letters: containerports, procrastinated, procrastinates, superpatriotic. | |
+5 letters: anthropocentrism, electrotherapies, malpractitioners, radioprotections. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 69 63 65 72 61 74 6F 70 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .. -.-. . .-. .- - --- .--. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110000 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r i c e r a t o p s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0069 0063 0065 0072 0061 0074 006F 0070 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5484756971846786818285 |
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