ceratosaurus Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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.

WordNet

Cer`a*to*sau"rus noun
Etymology
NL., fr. Gr. a horn + lizard.
Definitions
  1. (Paleon.) A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

Webster 1913