type of plant-eating dinosaur, 1892, from Modern Latin order name Stegosauria (O.C. Marsh, 1877), from comb. form of Greek stegos "a roof" (related to stege "covering," stegein "to cover," from PIE root *(s)teg- (2) "to cover," especially "cover with a roof" (cognates: Sanskrit sthag- "cover, conceal, hide;" Latin tegere "to cover;" Lithuanian stegti "roof;" Old Norse tekja, Old English teccan "thatch;" Dutch dekken, German decken "to cover, put under roof;" Irish tuigiur "cover," tech "house;" Welsh toi "thatch, roof," ty "house") + -saurus. The back-armor plates in the fossilized remains look like roof tiles.
雙語例句
1. Go down the sand pit and dig for the bones of stegosaurus!
快到大沙坑里挖掘劍龍的骨頭吧.
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2. Habitat - When and where Stegosaurus lived?
劍龍生活在什么時(shí)候?住哪兒?
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3. The Resurrection of Dinosaurs : Little friends, do your see the huge skeleton of stegosaurus?