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Webster 1913 Edition
Theropoda
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The-rop′o-da
,Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
θήρ
a beast + [GREEK], [GREEK], foot.] (Paleon.)
An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera
Megalosaurus
, Creosaurus
, and their allies. Definition 2024
Theropoda
Theropoda
Translingual
Proper noun
Theropoda
- A taxonomic suborder within the order Saurischia – a group of bipedal dinosaurs, the theropods, ancestral to birds.
Hyponyms
- (suborder): Ceratosauria, Carnosauria, Coelurosauria, Herrerasauria, Spinosauroidea, Tetanurae - infraorders