[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/dromaeosaur/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [D](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/d/) / dromaeosaur

# dromaeosaur

noun (a dromaeosaur, dromaeosaurs)

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

## Everyday

1. A kind of small to medium meat-eating dinosaur with feathers and a big curved claw on each foot, like Velociraptor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromaeosaur/#m1)
2. A member of the dinosaur family Dromaeosauridae, known as «raptors». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dromaeosaur/#m2)

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

## On Mova

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