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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
velociraptor

1924, from Latin velox (genitive velocis) "swift, speedy" (see velocity) + raptor "robber" (see raptor). Fossil remains discovered in 1923 in the red Djadochta sandstone at Shabarakh Usu in Mongolia.\n\nThe first (Fig. 1) of the typical megalosaurian type, although of small size, seems to have been an alert, swift-moving carnivorous dinosaur to which the generic name Velociraptor is applied.

[Henry Fairfield Osborn, "Three New Therapoda, Protoceratops Zone, Central Mongolia," in "American Museum Novitates," Nov., 7, 1924]

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velociraptor

n. an agile dinosaur, of the genus ''Velociraptor'', having sickle-shaped claws

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velociraptor

n. small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops; possibly related more closely to birds than to other dinosaurs

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Velociraptor

Velociraptor (; meaning "swift seizer" in Latin) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 75 to 71 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. Two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. The type species is V. mongoliensis; fossils of this species have been discovered in Mongolia. A second species, V. osmolskae, was named in 2008 for skull material from Inner Mongolia, China.

Smaller than other dromaeosaurids like Deinonychus and Achillobator, Velociraptor nevertheless shared many of the same anatomical features. It was a bipedal, feathered carnivore with a long tail and an enlarged sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to tackle prey. Velociraptor can be distinguished from other dromaeosaurids by its long and low skull, with an upturned snout.

Velociraptor (commonly shortened to "raptor") is one of the dinosaur genera most familiar to the general public due to its prominent role in the Jurassic Park motion picture series. Today, Velociraptor is well known to paleontologists, with over a dozen described fossil skeletons, the most of any dromaeosaurid. One particularly famous specimen preserves a Velociraptor locked in combat with a Protoceratops.

Usage examples of "velociraptor".

On one of them, the hypsilophodonts leapt into the air as a pack of velociraptors entered the field from the west.

The loss of the Velociraptor and the delays in the ABM tests had complicated everything.

Marian had told him once that to get rid of gangsta rap she'd have been willing to be stranded in the Jurassic with a pack of velociraptors in white sheets.

Every asset we have, including the Velociraptors, ought to be involved.

While it seemed logical that some sort of kill command had been sent from Cyclops One to the Velociraptors, there was no evidence in the telemetry data.

You’d want the Velociraptors as backups, just in case, but it’s doable.

As the Velociraptors worked over the Pakistani border near Indian Kashmir, they would feed data back to Cyclops Two, which would remain in Afghan airspace.

The laser aboard Cyclops Two would make the hit, but the two Velociraptors would be close enough to strike the helicopters if it missed.

The radar could not see the Velociraptors, nor would the missiles it guided present much of a challenge to the aircraft’s ECM suite if it came to that.

The two Velociraptors had separated about fifteen miles, Howe to the northeast and Timmy to the southwest of the lead MiG.

The Velociraptors hit the southernmost point of their patrol area, then swept back toward the rendezvous with a tanker.

The two Velociraptors were at fifteen thousand feet, a good five thousand below the MiGs, but that was their only disadvantage.

Just as certain modern birds ate the eggs of other birds, Grant had always assumed that velociraptors would eat dinosaur eggs if they could.

He was frightened to be in this stinking, hellish place, with the velociraptors somewhere around.

Large steel junction boxes provided a makeshift hiding place, protecting them from the view of the two full—size velociraptors that stood directly before them, not five feet away.