ceratosaur

Questions about ceratosaur

What does ceratosaur mean?

ceratosaur means "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".

How many syllables are in ceratosaur?

ceratosaur has 4 syllables and divides as ce-ra-to-saur under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ceratosaur?

Close synonyms include ceratosaurus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ceratosaur a common word?

ceratosaur is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.