edmontosaurus

«edmontosaurus» in Mova's school dictionary: A large plant-eating duck-billed dinosaur (a hadrosaur)… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an Edmontosaurus, Edmontosauruses; also Edmontosaurus as the genus name)

meaning for a pupil

1) A large plant-eating duck-billed dinosaur (a hadrosaur) that lived in North America near the end of the age of dinosaurs, about 68 to 66 million years ago. tree →

2) Named after Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, where the first fossils were found. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons and museums about dinosaurs, Edmontosaurus was a common herbivore that lived in herds and was hunted by Tyrannosaurus rex; some fossils even show skin; phrases: «a herd of Edmontosaurus», «duck-billed dinosaur».

examples

• Edmontosaurus had a flat beak like a duck. tree →
• Edmontosaurus ate plants with hundreds of grinding teeth. tree →
• A T. rex bite mark was found on an Edmontosaurus bone. tree →
• Herds of Edmontosaurus roamed Canada and the USA. tree →
• Edmontosaurus could grow up to 12 metres long. tree →
• The museum had a mummified Edmontosaurus with skin prints. tree →

note

Scientific names start with a capital letter and are often written in italics: Edmontosaurus. Pronounced ed-MON-toh-SORE-us. «-saurus» means lizard.

In the corpora

• Duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus had hundreds of teeth packed together to grind plants.

Trees and pragmatics

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