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# edmontosaurus

noun (an Edmontosaurus, Edmontosauruses; also Edmontosaurus as the genus name)

«edmontosaurus» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A large plant-eating duck-billed dinosaur (a hadrosaur) that lived in North America near the end of the age of dinosaurs, about 68 to 66 million years ago. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#m1)
2. Named after Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, where the first fossils were found. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons and museums about dinosaurs, Edmontosaurus was a common herbivore that lived in herds and was hunted by Tyrannosaurus rex; some fossils even show skin; phrases: «a herd of Edmontosaurus», «duck-billed dinosaur».

### Examples

- Edmontosaurus had a flat beak like a duck. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#x1)
- Edmontosaurus ate plants with hundreds of grinding teeth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#x2)
- A T. rex bite mark was found on an Edmontosaurus bone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#x3)
- Herds of Edmontosaurus roamed Canada and the USA. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#x4)
- Edmontosaurus could grow up to 12 metres long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#x5)
- The museum had a mummified Edmontosaurus with skin prints. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/#x6)

### Note

Scientific names start with a capital letter and are often written in italics: Edmontosaurus. Pronounced ed-MON-toh-SORE-us. «-saurus» means lizard.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «edmontosaurus» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/edmontosaurus/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«edmontosaurus» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/edmontosaurus.html) on Mova free.