ceratosaur

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   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

   Synonymsceratosaurus

   Broadertheropod

   Narrowercoelophysis

   Part ofsuborder Ceratosaura

Other forms of ceratosaur

plural

ceratosaurs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

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: ce-ra-to-saur. The stress falls on "ra".

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.