bird-footed dinosaur
English Thesaurus
1. any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | saurischian, saurischian dinosaur, |
| definition | : | herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ceratosaur, ceratosaurus, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | carnosaur, |
| definition | : | large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having huge claws (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | tyrannosaur, tyrannosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex, |
| definition | : | large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having enormous teeth with knifelike serrations; may have been a scavenger rather than an active predator; later Cretaceous period in North America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | allosaur, allosaurus, |
| definition | : | late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur; similar to but somewhat smaller than tyrannosaurus (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | compsognathus, |
| definition | : | very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | eoraptor, |
| definition | : | a theropod dinosaur of the genus Eoraptor (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | megalosaur, megalosaurus, |
| definition | : | gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | ornithomimid, |
| definition | : | lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | maniraptor, |
| definition | : | advanced carnivorous theropod (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | suborder theropoda, theropoda, |
| definition | : | carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs with short forelimbs; Jurassic and Cretaceous (noun.animal) |
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