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dromaeosaur

n. Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae

dromæosaur

n. (rare spelling of dromaeosaur English)

WordNet
dromaeosaur

n. a kind of maniraptor

Usage examples of "dromaeosaur".

An unlucky dromaeosaur was caught in the act of being trampled under the feet of a charging triceratops.

Surely, dromaeosaurs must have been highly active predators and true killing-machines.

In comparison with dromaeosaurs, troodontids were certainly much less ferocious predators.

Its front limb, although unusually long, has the three-fingered, clawed hand with the peculiar wrist, identical to that of dromaeosaurs, troodontids, and oviraptorosaurs.

If the dromaeosaurs were rivaled for speed, it may have only been by the ornithomimids, the ostrich-like dinosaurs that appeared in North America, Africa, and Europe, as well as Asia, throughout the Cretaceous.

In ornithomimosaurs and dromaeosaurs the forelimbs were used in gathering food.

After today, paleontologists could publish their work, talk about it in public, show footage of a juvenile triceratops being mobbed by dromaeosaurs, sign movie contracts, make public appeals for funding, become media stars.

Velociraptors were small carnivorous dinosaurs, like oviraptors and dromaeosaurs, animals that were long thought to steal eggs.