noun
- a herbivorous dinosaur of a group that includes duck-billed dinosaurs and had bird-like hips
Usage: paleontology
Examples
- The ornithopod fossils were discovered in Cretaceous rock formations.
- Hadrosaurs were a type of ornithopod that lived in herds.
- The museum’s ornithopod skeleton shows the characteristic bird-like hip structure.
- Scientists identified the ornithopod by its distinctive teeth adapted for grinding plants.
- This ornithopod species was one of the largest herbivorous dinosaurs of its time.