Oviraptor

See also: oviraptor

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin ovum (“egg”) + raptor (“thief”), based on a mistaken belief that one fossilized individual was taking eggs from another dinosaur's nest.

Proper noun

Oviraptor m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Oviraptoridae – oviraptors, a theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.