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# compsognathus

«compsognathus» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small meat-eating dinosaur about the size of a chicken…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a Compsognathus, Compsognathus or compsognathuses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small meat-eating dinosaur about the size of a chicken or turkey, which ran on two legs and lived about 150 million years ago in what is now Germany and France. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compsognathus/#m1)

2) Its name means «pretty jaw». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compsognathus/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about dinosaurs and fossils, Compsognathus is famous for being one of the smallest dinosaurs known for a long time; one fossil had a lizard in its stomach, showing what it ate. It is related to the ancestors of birds. Often shortened to «compy» in films.

### examples

- Compsognathus was only about the size of a turkey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compsognathus/#x1)
- Scientists found a lizard inside a Compsognathus fossil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compsognathus/#x2)
- Compsognathus ran fast on two thin legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compsognathus/#x3)
- Its name means «pretty jaw». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compsognathus/#x4)
- Compsognathus lived in the Jurassic period. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compsognathus/#x5)
- In the film, a pack of compies chased the boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compsognathus/#x6)

### note

Say «komp-sog-NAY-thus». Dinosaur names are usually written with a capital letter and in italics in science. Plural is often the same word. Not all dinosaurs were huge.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «compsognathus» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compsognathus/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.