English Explanatory Dictionary

hypsilophodont

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the genus †Hypsilophodon of small ornithopod herbivorous dinosaurs.

Word forms

hypsilophodont hypsilophodonts

Etymology

From the genus name translingual Hypsilophodont. By surface analysis, hypsi- + loph- + -odont, from Ancient Greek ὑψίλοφος (hupsílophos).

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