velociraptor

See also: Velociraptor and vélociraptor

English edit

New Latin Velociraptor genus name, from vēlōx (“swift”) +‎ raptor (“thief”).

The application to Deinonychus came about because Gregory S. Paul proposed that Velociraptor and Deinonychus were the same genus^[1] and this idea was taken up in the book leading to the Jurassic Park film series.

velociraptor (plural velociraptors)

A small agile dinosaur, of the genus Velociraptor, having sickle-shaped claws. It is also thought to have had a feathered coat. Fossils have been found in Late Cretaceous deposits Mongolia and China (around 75-71 mya).
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 31:
  Bipedal hadrosaurs, great hulking lambeosaurs, certain rhino-like ceratopsians and relatives of the velociraptors - all large and probably able swimmers - had the greatest success.
(film) Also Deinonychus
Synonym: deinonychus
- 1988, Gregory S. Paul, Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 366–7:
  This is my favorite velociraptor, and that is saying a lot....That this species is sunk into Velociraptor is rather unfortunate, because the name Deinonychus Ostrom 1969a is a fine one.

dinosaur

^ Gregory S. Paul (1988) Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 364

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Borrowed from Latin vēlōcem raptōrem (literally “quick thief”).

velociraptor m (invariable)

velociraptor m (plural velociraptores)