maniraptor (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *maniraptor*:
NOUN	animal	maniraptor	advanced carnivorous theropod

English > *maniraptor*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Advanced carnivorous theropod.
Member of	Maniraptora, suborder Maniraptora	Advanced theropods including oviraptorids and dromaeosaurs and possibly even modern birds
Narrower	Mononychus olecranus	A turkey-sized long-legged fossil 75 million years old found in the Gobi Desert having bird-like fused wrist bones and keeled breastbone and a long tail resembling a dinosaur's
	deinonychus	swift agile wolf-sized bipedal dinosaur having a large curved claw on each hind foot
	dromaeosaur	A kind of maniraptor
	oviraptorid	Advanced carnivorous theropod
	utahraptor, superslasher	large (20-ft) and swift carnivorous dinosaur having an upright slashing claw 15 inches long on each hind foot
	velociraptor	small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops
Broader	theropod, theropod dinosaur, bird-footed dinosaur	Any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs
Spanish	maniraptor
Catalan	maniraptor

HyperDic: maniraptor