triceratops
pronunciation
How to pronounce triceratops in British English:
UK [traɪˈserətɒps]
How to pronounce triceratops in American English:
US [traɪˈserətɑps]
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- Noun:
- huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill
Word Origin
- triceratops (n.)
- dinosaur genus, 1890, from Greek trikeratos "three-horned" + ops "face," literally "eye," from PIE *okw- "to see" (see eye (n.)). The first element is from tri- "three" (see three) + keras (genitive keratos) "horn" (see kerato-).
Example
- 1. I 'll kill you triceratops !
- 2. Torosaurus may actually be an adult triceratops , as we recently reported .
- 3. Male triceratops may have locked their massive horns for the right to mate .
- 4. Others , like the horned triceratops , were clearly adapted to shearing plant material .
- 5. But if feathers truly are the diagnostic criterion , then perhaps things should be the other way round , and stegosaurus , triceratops , diplodocus , tyrannosaurus and their kin should no longer be thought of as terrible lizards , but as overweight , flightless birds .