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# deinonychus

«deinonychus» in Mova's school dictionary: **A meat-eating dinosaur about 3 metres long that ran on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a deinonychus, deinonychuses; often written Deinonychus as the name of the animal)

### meaning for a pupil

A meat-eating dinosaur about 3 metres long that ran on two legs and had a large curved claw on each foot. The name means «terrible claw». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deinonychus/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and dinosaur lessons, Deinonychus showed scientists that some dinosaurs were fast, active hunters, closely related to birds; it probably had feathers. It lived in North America about 115 million years ago. In stories and films it inspired the fast, clever «raptors».

### examples

- Deinonychus had a big curved claw on each foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deinonychus/#x1)
- Its name means «terrible claw». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deinonychus/#x2)
- Scientists think Deinonychus had feathers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deinonychus/#x3)
- Deinonychus lived in North America long before people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deinonychus/#x4)
- The museum has a Deinonychus skeleton in a running pose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deinonychus/#x5)
- The raptors in films are partly based on Deinonychus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deinonychus/#x6)
- Deinonychus was about as long as a car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deinonychus/#x7)

### note

Pronounced «die-NON-i-kus». As a scientific name it is written with a capital and often in italics: Deinonychus. It is a dinosaur name from Greek, not an everyday word. Myth: film raptors are much bigger than the real animal.

### Trees and pragmatics

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