单词 | struthiomimus |
释义 | Struthiomimusn. Palaeontology. A genus of lightly built, ornithomimid dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous period; (also struthiomimus) a dinosaur of this genus. ΚΠ 1916 H. F. Osborn in Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 35 733 The new subgeneric or generic name Struthiomimus is proposed for the Belly River (Fort Pierre) stage of the Ornithomimidæ. 1935 R. L. Ditmars Bk. Prehistoric Animals iv. 29 Among the erect-running plant-eaters and their allies was Struthiomimus, the size of an ostrich and looking remarkably like one. 1966 R. Silverberg Forgotten by Time 94 Many dinosaurs walked on their hind legs and were only a few feet tall; one of them, Struthiomimus, looked so much like a scaly ostrich that its name means ‘the ostrich mimic’. 2001 D. Burnie Kingfisher Illustr. Dinosaur Encycl. 122/1 Running for their lives, a herd of Struthiomimus quickly outpace a lumbering Tyrannosaurus. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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