duck-billed dinosaur

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   any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic

   Synonymshadrosaurhadrosaurus

   Broaderornithischian

   Narroweranatotitancorythosauredmontosaurustrachodon

   Part ofHadrosauridae

Questions about duck-billed dinosaur

What does duck-billed dinosaur mean?

duck-billed dinosaur means "any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic".

What is another word for duck-billed dinosaur?

Close synonyms include hadrosaur, hadrosaurus. 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 duck-billed dinosaur a common word?

duck-billed dinosaur 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.