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say it: steg-uh-SAW-ruhs
stegosaurus is a noun meaning "herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon". It is pronounced /ˌstɛɡəˈsɔɹəs/ — steg-uh-SAW-ruhs. It carries one recorded sense.
herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stegosaurus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.