parasaurolophus
noun
parasaurolophus is a noun meaning “Parasaurolophus, a herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of what is now North America that walked both as a biped and a…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-A-S-A-U-R-O-L-O-P-H-U-S, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of parasaurolophus is parasaurolophuses or parasaurolophi.
What does parasaurolophus mean?
noun
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Parasaurolophus, a herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of what is now North America that walked both as a biped and a quadruped.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of parasaurolophus
- parasaurolophuses plural
- parasaurolophi plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is parasaurolophus?
Parasaurolophus appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Parasaurolophus in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense dinosaur:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | parassaurolofo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does parasaurolophus come from?
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Parasaurolophus; see there for more.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).