1. a large plant-eating dinosaur with three horns on its face and a bony frill around its neck

Examples

• The triceratops was one of the last dinosaur species to exist before the mass extinction.
• Children love learning about the triceratops because of its distinctive three horns.
• The museum’s triceratops skeleton is the most popular exhibit.
• A triceratops could weigh as much as an elephant.
• The triceratops used its horns to defend itself from predators like T. rex.
• Paleontologists have found many triceratops fossils in North America.