utahraptor

«utahraptor» in Mova's school dictionary: A large meat-eating dinosaur with a big curved claw on… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (utahraptor, utahraptors; also Utahraptor)

meaning for a pupil

A large meat-eating dinosaur with a big curved claw on each foot, which lived about 125 million years ago in what is now Utah, USA. tree →

sense in the lessons

In dinosaur and science lessons it is one of the biggest raptors, about 6 to 7 metres long, much bigger than the real velociraptor. Fossils show it was related to birds and probably had feathers.

examples

• Utahraptor was named after the state of Utah. tree →
• A utahraptor had a huge claw on each foot. tree →
• Scientists think utahraptors had feathers. tree →
• The utahraptor was much bigger than a velociraptor. tree →
• We saw a utahraptor skeleton at the museum. tree →
• Utahraptor lived in the Early Cretaceous period. tree →

note

As a scientific name it is written Utahraptor with a capital letter; in everyday writing «a utahraptor» is fine. Use «a», not «an», because it starts with a «you» sound. Myth: films show velociraptors as big as people, but it was utahraptor that was that big.

In the corpora

• Utahraptor was about 6 metres long and as heavy as a polar bear, and lived earlier than Velociraptor; most raptors were small.

Trees and pragmatics

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