NOUN
- primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal
How To Use psittacosaur In A Sentence
- Psittacosaurus, though, was a ceratopsid, the group of dinosaurs to which triceratops belonged. Times, Sunday Times
- So, here I am still excited by Limusaurus, the herbivorous ceratosaurid, and up pops a previously unknown form of the speciose ceratopsian genus Psittacosaurus (presently 10-11 valid species known), from the Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia. Spock, Obama, the Kwisatz Haderach, and decriminalizing evolution.
- Discoverer of more dinosaur species than any other living scientist, Xu Xing, with a cast of parrot-faced Psittacosaurus, says some dinosaurs have birdlike traits, including feathers.
