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deinonychus

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11 lettersPronunciation /daɪˈnɒnɪkəs/Part of speech nounSorted cdehinnosuyStarts with DEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A swift predatory dinosaur with a large curved claw on each hind foot.

Word origin

From translingual Deinonychus (1969), from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “fearful, terrible”) (see dinosaur) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail, claw, talon”).

Used in a sentence

  • Bella kept half an eye out for the deinonychi. The deinonychus dinosaurs with the teeth and raking claws were big solid humans in the real.
  • In that chamber, lying curled, or sitting hunched, were five saurians: two deinonychi and three smaller ones that looked like some kind of miniature tyrannosaur.

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