Cer·a·to·sau·rus n. Paleon. A swift-running bipedal carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony short horn between the nostrils on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.
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ceratosaurus
n : primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal
carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp
claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in
North America [syn: ceratosaur]