Sunday, December 9, 2007

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dilophosaurus
noun the earliest of the large bipedal dinosaurs, which had two long crests on the head and occurred in the early Jurassic period.
Genus Dilophosaurus, infraorder Carnosauria, suborder Theropoda.
origin modern Latin, from Greek dilophos ‘two-crested’ + sauros ‘lizard’.

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