ornithischia – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Ornithischia
Ornithischia ( ) or
Predentata is an extinct
order of beaked,
herbivorous dinosaurs. The name
ornithischia is derived from the
Greek ornitheos (
ορνιθειος) meaning 'of a bird' and
ischion (
ισχιον) meaning 'hip joint'. They are known as the 'bird-hipped' dinosaurs because of their bird-like
hip structure, even though
birds actually belong to the 'lizard-hipped' dinosaurs (the
saurischians).
Ornithischia
Noun
1. extinct terrestrial reptiles having birdlike pelvises: armored dinosaurs (thyreophorans); bone-headed and horned dinosaurs (marginocephalians); duck-billed dinosaurs (euronithopods)
(synonym) order Ornithischia
(hypernym) animal order
(member-holonym) Archosauria, subclass Archosauria
(member-meronym) ornithischian, ornithischian dinosaur
