Ceratosaurus

Cer`a`to`sau´rus

n.

1.

(Paleon.) A swift-running bipedal carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony short horn between the nostrils on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

ceratosaurus - primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America ceratosaur bird-footed dinosaur, theropod, theropod dinosaur - any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs suborder Ceratosaura - primitive saurischian dinosaurs coelophysis - one of the oldest known dinosaurs; late Triassic; cannibalistic