dromaeosaur

See also: dromæosaur

English

Alternative forms

• dromæosaur

Etymology

Back-formation from Dromaeosauridae

Noun

dromaeosaur (plural dromaeosaurs)

Deinonychus antirrhopus, a dromaeosaur

1. Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.
   • 2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     In communities with megatheropods, Ms. Schroeder and colleagues found what they call a “carnivore gap”: a large swath of medium-size niches that were empty. For instance, the Hell Creek Formation, a well-studied fossil area that stretches from modern day Utah to Alberta, was once home to 630-pound grown-up dromaeosaurs, 7-ton adult T. rexes — and no mature meat-eaters in between.

Synonyms

• dromaeosaurid

Hypernyms

• deinonychosaur
  • theropod
    • saurischian
      • dinosaur
        • sauropsid
          • chordate
            • animal

See also

• Dromaeosauridae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia