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# edmontosaurus

«edmontosaurus» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large plant-eating duck-billed dinosaur (a hadrosaur)…** — 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 Edmontosaurus, Edmontosauruses; also Edmontosaurus as the genus name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A large plant-eating duck-billed dinosaur (a hadrosaur) that lived in North America near the end of the age of dinosaurs, about 68 to 66 million years ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#m1)

2) Named after Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, where the first fossils were found. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons and museums about dinosaurs, Edmontosaurus was a common herbivore that lived in herds and was hunted by Tyrannosaurus rex; some fossils even show skin; phrases: «a herd of Edmontosaurus», «duck-billed dinosaur».

### examples

- Edmontosaurus had a flat beak like a duck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#x1)
- Edmontosaurus ate plants with hundreds of grinding teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#x2)
- A T. rex bite mark was found on an Edmontosaurus bone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#x3)
- Herds of Edmontosaurus roamed Canada and the USA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#x4)
- Edmontosaurus could grow up to 12 metres long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#x5)
- The museum had a mummified Edmontosaurus with skin prints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#x6)

### note

Scientific names start with a capital letter and are often written in italics: Edmontosaurus. Pronounced ed-MON-toh-SORE-us. «-saurus» means lizard.

### In the corpora

- [Duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus had hundreds of teeth packed together to grind plants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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