资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Ornithopoda \Or`ni*thop"o*da\, n. pl. [NL. See {Ornitho-}, and
{-poda}.] (Paleon.)
An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike
characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind
legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes,
and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See
Illust. in Appendix.
资料来源 : WordNet®
Ornithopoda
n : widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their
early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon)
[syn: {Euronithopoda}, {suborder Euronithopoda}, {euronithopod},
{suborder Ornithopoda}]