nodosaurian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of nodosaurid, any member of the family Nodosauridae, ankylosaurians without clublike tails.
Example Sentences
- "Pinacosaurus is a common dinosaur in the Mongolian deposits. It is an ankylosaurid (member of the Family Ankylosauridae) as opposed to a nodosaurian as we saw in Sauropelta from the Cloverly in the previous lecture. Ankylosaurids differ from nodosaurians in [retention] of a primitive configuration of the skull roof (e.g. there are still paired plates). However, ankylosaurids also have the novel shared derived character of having a bony club at the end of the tail (above). Ankylosaurids, such as Pinacosaurus also tend to have broader skulls than nodosaurids and tend to have spikes on the rear corevers of their box-like skulls."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: nodosaurus