Definition of ornithischia Ornithischia
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What does ornithischia mean?
WordNet
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| ornithischia - extinct terrestrial reptiles having bird-like pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); boneheaded and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods) | ||
| order Ornithischia | ||
| animal order the order of animals | ||
| archosauria, subclass archosauria a large subclass of diapsid reptiles including: crocodiles; alligators; dinosaurs; pterosaurs; plesiosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts | ||
| ornithischian, ornithischian dinosaur herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird | ||
| genus pisanosaurus primitive ornithischian dinosaur found in Argentina; early Triassic | ||
| genus staurikosaurus primitive ornithischian dinosaur found in Brazil | ||
| suborder thyreophora, thyreophora, thyreophoran armored dinosaurs: stegosaurs and ankylosaurs | ||
| marginocephalia, marginocephalian, suborder marginocephalia includes boneheaded (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs | ||
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Wikipedia 
- Ornithischia is an order of beaked, herbivorous dinosaurs. The name "ornithischia" is derived from the Greek "ornithos" meaning 'of a bird' and "ischion" meaning 'hip joint'. They are known as the 'bird-hipped' dinosaurs because of their bird-like hip structure, even thouhg bird actually descended from the lizard-hipped' dinosaurs the saurischians.
Part of speech
🔤- ornithischia, noun, singular of ornithischias / ornithischiae.
