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

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/velociraptor/#x1)
- Real velociraptors were about the size of a turkey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/velociraptor/#x2)
- Fossils show that velociraptors had feathers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/velociraptor/#x3)
- The name velociraptor means «swift thief». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/velociraptor/#x4)
- A velociraptor fossil was found locked in a fight with another dinosaur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/velociraptor/#x5)
- In the film the velociraptors were much bigger than real ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/velociraptor/#x6)
- The velociraptor ran on two legs and held its tail out straight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/velociraptor/#x7)
- Birds are distant relatives of dinosaurs like the velociraptor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/velociraptor/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/11/)
- [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/)
- [Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two joined collarbones that T. rex and Velociraptor had.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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