hadrosaurus

Other forms of hadrosaurus

plural

hadrosauruses·

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 hadrosaurus

What does hadrosaurus mean?

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

How many syllables are in hadrosaurus?

hadrosaurus has 4 syllables and divides as ha-dro-sau-rus 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 hadrosaurus?

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

hadrosaurus 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.