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# utahraptor

noun (utahraptor, utahraptors; also Utahraptor)

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

## Everyday

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/utahraptor/#m1)

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

## On Mova

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