pachycephalosaur

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pachycephalosaur

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From the genus name translingual Pachycephalosaurus, equivalent to pachy- (“thick”) + cephalo- (“head”) + -saur (“lizard”).

noun pachycephalosaurs

Any of a group of herbivorous dinosaurs, of the genus Pachycephalosaurus from the late Cretaceous period. One could almost call Triopticus a mimic were it not for the fact that it dates to 228-220 million years ago, meaning that it predates the pachycephalosaurs by over 100 million years.

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noun dinosaur of the genus Pachycephalosaurus

Português	paquicefalossauro
Ελληνικά	παχυκεφαλόσαυρος pachykefalósavros

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@misc{pachycephalosaur_2026,
  title = {pachycephalosaur},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pachycephalosaur},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}