Definition of stegosaurus
: any of a genus (Stegosaurus) of stegosaurs known from the Upper Jurassic rocks especially of Colorado and Wyoming
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His budget-busting, $4 billion World Trade Center transit hub in lower Manhattan, which was supposed to resemble a bird but looks more like a stegosaurus, is the most notorious example.
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First a Tyrannosaurus rex appeared on the table, followed by a velociraptor and a stegosaurus.
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The park will bring a new stegosaurus fossil cast to its museum around the same time, the Daily Record reported.
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Floor-to-ceiling windows framed an industrial wasteland spotted by neon Prada signs — a cartoon ape, hanging by one arm; a bunch of bananas; a stegosaurus — and the floor had been polished to a dark mirror, creating a vertiginous disorientation.
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There were stegosauruses, apatosauruses, a T-rex, but the parasaurolophus, in all its weird glory, was always my favorite.
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In conclusion: An absurd number of punts are being fumbled, and Jurassic Park needed more stegosauruses, which is the best dinosaur.
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Most people associate geological layers with eras long gone: paleontologists digging up fossils of stegosauruses or ancient corals, the stunning layered lines of the Grand Canyon giving testimony to the billions of years of life on Earth.
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And another tiny stegosaurus turned up last year inside Steggie, the museum's iconic statue.
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Origin and Etymology of stegosaurus
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Definition of stegosaurus for Students
: a large plant-eating dinosaur with bony plates along its back and tail and with spikes at the end of the tail
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