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# deinonychus

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

«deinonychus» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/deinonychus/#m1)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «deinonychus»](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/deinonychus/): every meaning and example of this page parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«deinonychus» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/deinonychus.html) on Mova free.