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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromaeosaur/#m1)

2) A member of the dinosaur family Dromaeosauridae, known as «raptors». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromaeosaur/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromaeosaur/#x1)
- Dromaeosaurs had feathers like birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromaeosaur/#x2)
- The museum showed a dromaeosaur's curved toe claw. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromaeosaur/#x3)
- Scientists think dromaeosaurs were fast and clever hunters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromaeosaur/#x4)
- Microraptor was a tiny dromaeosaur with four wings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromaeosaur/#x5)
- Dromaeosaur fossils have been found in Mongolia and North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromaeosaur/#x6)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromaeosaur/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.