dromaeosaur

«dromaeosaur» in Mova's school dictionary: A kind of small to medium meat-eating dinosaur with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a dromaeosaur, dromaeosaurs)

meaning for a pupil

1) A kind of small to medium meat-eating dinosaur with feathers and a big curved claw on each foot, like Velociraptor. tree →

2) A member of the dinosaur family Dromaeosauridae, known as «raptors». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about dinosaurs and evolution, dromaeosaurs show that birds are related to dinosaurs, because they had feathers; they appear in books, museums and films (as «raptors»); phrases: «feathered dromaeosaur», «dromaeosaur claw».

examples

• Velociraptor was a dromaeosaur about the size of a turkey. tree →
• Dromaeosaurs had feathers like birds. tree →
• The museum showed a dromaeosaur's curved toe claw. tree →
• Scientists think dromaeosaurs were fast and clever hunters. tree →
• Microraptor was a tiny dromaeosaur with four wings. tree →
• Dromaeosaur fossils have been found in Mongolia and North America. tree →

note

Pronounced DROH-mee-oh-sore. Name means «running lizard». Trap: real Velociraptors were much smaller than in the films and had feathers. Plural: dromaeosaurs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dromaeosaur» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.