velociraptor

«velociraptor» in Mova's school dictionary: A velociraptor was a small, fast, meat-eating dinosaur… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a velociraptor, velociraptors; Velociraptor — the scientific name)

meaning for a pupil

A velociraptor was a small, fast, meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia and China; it ran on two legs, had feathers and a large curved claw on each foot. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on dinosaurs and fossils, the velociraptor is famous from films like «Jurassic Park», where it is shown as large and scaly; real fossils show it was about the size of a turkey and had feathers, like birds, which are its distant relatives. A famous fossil shows a velociraptor fighting a protoceratops. Phrases: velociraptor claw, a feathered velociraptor.

examples

• A velociraptor had a big curved claw on each foot. tree →
• Real velociraptors were about the size of a turkey. tree →
• Fossils show that velociraptors had feathers. tree →
• The name velociraptor means «swift thief». tree →
• A velociraptor fossil was found locked in a fight with another dinosaur. tree →
• In the film the velociraptors were much bigger than real ones. tree →
• The velociraptor ran on two legs and held its tail out straight. tree →
• Birds are distant relatives of dinosaurs like the velociraptor. tree →

note

Countable: a velociraptor, velociraptors; often shortened to «raptor». Pronounced «vuh-LOSS-ih-rap-tor». As a scientific genus name it is written with a capital V and in italics: Velociraptor. The name comes from Latin: «velox» (swift) + «raptor» (thief, robber). Myth: the films' velociraptors were really based on a bigger relative.

In the corpora

• The wishbone is two collarbones joined together; T. rex and Velociraptor had wishbones too, long before birds flew.
• Utahraptor was about 6 metres long and as heavy as a polar bear, and lived earlier than Velociraptor; most raptors were small.
• Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two joined collarbones that T. rex and Velociraptor had.

Trees and pragmatics

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