triceratops

/traɪˌsɛrəˈtɑps/

Other forms: triceratopses

The triceratops was a three-horned dinosaur that lived on the Earth about 68 million years ago. If you're a budding paleontologist, you might want to visit the Museum of Natural History in New York City to see a fossilized triceratops skeleton.

The triceratops is one of the most easily recognized dinosaurs—it looked a little bit like a rhinoceros. Archaeologists have found many triceratops bones over the years, starting as early as 1889, including complete skeletons, which is why we know a lot about how this dinosaur lived. Triceratops was an herbivore that was probably preyed on by tyrannosaurus. Its three horns may have been used for self-defense, or for courtship and displaying dominance among other triceratops.

Definitions of triceratops

1. noun

   huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill
   type of:

   ceratopsian, horned dinosaur

   any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia