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# ankylosaurus

«ankylosaurus» in Mova's school dictionary: **An ankylosaurus was a large, plant-eating dinosaur…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an ankylosaurus, ankylosauruses or ankylosauri)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An ankylosaurus was a large, plant-eating dinosaur covered in thick bony plates, like armour, with a heavy club at the end of its tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ankylosaurus/#m1)

2) It lived at the end of the age of dinosaurs (the Late Cretaceous), in what is now North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ankylosaurus/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and dinosaur lessons, the ankylosaurus is the «armoured tank» of dinosaurs: it defended itself from meat eaters such as Tyrannosaurus rex by swinging its tail club. It is used to teach about fossils, adaptations and herbivores. Phrases: «tail club», «armoured dinosaur».

### examples

- The ankylosaurus swung its tail club at the T. rex. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ankylosaurus/#x1)
- An ankylosaurus was covered in bony plates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ankylosaurus/#x2)
- Ankylosaurus ate low plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ankylosaurus/#x3)
- We saw an ankylosaurus skeleton at the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ankylosaurus/#x4)
- Its armour was an adaptation to keep it safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ankylosaurus/#x5)
- The ankylosaurus was about as long as a bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ankylosaurus/#x6)

### note

Countable; use «an». Plural «ankylosauruses» (some books say «ankylosaurs» for the whole group). Pronounced ANK-ih-lo-SAW-rus. The name means «fused lizard», because its bones were joined. It did not live at the same time as people.

### In the corpora

- [Ankylosaurus was covered with bony plates in its skin and had a heavy club on its tail that could break a predator's leg.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ankylosaurus» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ankylosaurus/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.