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单词 iguanodontid
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iguanodontidn.adj.

Brit. /ɪˌɡwɑːnəˈdɒntɪd/, U.S. /əˌɡwɑnəˈdɑn(t)əd/, /iˌɡwɑnəˈdɑn(t)əd/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Iguanodontidae.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Iguanodontidae, family name (T. H. Huxley 1870, in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 26 35) < Iguanodont- , taken as stem (after ancient Greek ὀδοντ- , ὀδούς tooth) of Iguanodon iguanodon n. + -idae (see -id suffix3).
Palaeontology.
A. n.
Any of various herbivorous ornithopod dinosaurs constituting the chiefly Cretaceous family Iguanodontidae, characterized by a robust body and a large skull with a toothless beak.The family Iguanodontidae was formerly taken to include a number of loosely related genera, but in the most recent schemes it only comprises the genus Iguanodon.
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1884 Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1882 624 Iguanodontids. Ornithopods with clavicles, and with an incomplete postpubis.
1962 Nature 15 Dec. 1076/2 The tooth-structure of the South African animal is altogether closer to that found in later and more specialized iguanodontids.
2008 New Scientist 21 June 38/1 These include..iguanodontids (herding dinosaurs that were ancestral to the duck-billed dinosaurs).
B. adj.
Of or relating to the dinosaur family Iguanodontidae; designating a dinosaur of this family.
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1910 Geol. Mag. 7 261 Being the only Iguanodontid animal which we can suppose to have secondarily descended on its fore-legs..Telmatosaurus deserves special attention.
1964 Jrnl. Paleontol. 38 378/1 This enabled the author to identify the remains as..two fragments of a left femur of an iguanodontid dinosaur.
1981 Mem. Queensland Mus. 20 340/1 Muttaburrasaurus however shows clear distinction from each of the well known iguanodontid genera.
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 501/2 Robert Koldewey identified the Sirrush as an iguanodontid dinosaur, a family of heavily built, bipedal or quadrupedal herbivores.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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