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

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/utahraptor/#x1)
- A utahraptor had a huge claw on each foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/utahraptor/#x2)
- Scientists think utahraptors had feathers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/utahraptor/#x3)
- The utahraptor was much bigger than a velociraptor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/utahraptor/#x4)
- We saw a utahraptor skeleton at the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/utahraptor/#x5)
- Utahraptor lived in the Early Cretaceous period. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/utahraptor/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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