oviraptor

See also: Oviraptor

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From scientific Latin Oviraptor (genus name), from Latin ōvi- (“ovi-”) + raptor (because it is believed to have fed on the eggs of other dinosaurs).

Noun

oviraptor (plural oviraptors)

1. Any of several bipedal dinosaurs, of the genus Oviraptor, from the late Cretaceous period.
   • 2017 October 11, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     In all three fossil samples, the concentration of biliverdin is higher than that of protoporphyrin, suggesting that these oviraptor eggs originally were blue-green.

Translations

dinosaur

• Chinese: 竊蛋龍／窃蛋龙 (zh) (qièdànlóng), 窃蛋龙 (zh) (qièdànlóng)
• Finnish: oviraptori
• Turkish: oviraptor