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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America;
[syn: ceratosaur, ceratosaurus]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ceratosaurus \Cer`a*to*sau"rus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ke`ras a horn + ? lizard.] (Paleon.) A swift-running bipedal carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony short horn between the nostrils on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ceratosaurus n 1: primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America [syn: ceratosaur, ceratosaurus]