ornithopoda Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon)
    Euronithopoda; suborder Euronithopoda; euronithopod; suborder Ornithopoda.

WordNet

Or`ni*thop"o*da noun plural
Etymology
NL. See Ornitho-, and -poda.
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913