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单词 theropod
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Definition of theropod in English:

theropod

nounˈθɪərə(ʊ)pɒdˈTHirəˌpäd
  • A carnivorous dinosaur of a group whose members were typically bipedal and ranged from small and delicately built to very large.

    兽脚亚目食肉恐龙

    Suborder Theropoda, order Saurischia; includes the carnosaurs, ornithomimosaurs, coelurosaurs, and dromaeosaurids

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Accumulating evidence suggests that living birds are the direct descendants of theropods, a group of meat-eating dinosaurs that walked on two legs.
    • However, these feathered theropods are clearly just one small group of dinosaurs, and if they were all transported to modern times, they are so similar we would put them all in the same small group.
    • Hence, we are suggesting that the pattern of lung ventilation during running in non-avian theropods was the opposite of that observed in recent birds.
    • Apparently, however, the jaws of theropods were relatively weaker for their length than those of carnivorans.
    • Dromaeosaurs, a group of small, fleet-footed dinosaurs in the theropod family, are thought to be the closest known relatives of birds.
    • Just to add an element of confusion, actual birds evolved from the lizard-hipped theropods, not from the bird-hipped ornithischians.
    • Case said the shape of the teeth and features of the feet were characteristic of a group of dinosaurs known as theropods, which includes the tyrannosaurs, as well as all other meat-eating dinosaurs.
    • The theropods include such charismatic extinct animals as Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as the only surviving dinosaurs - the birds.
    • Although great size, as well as a great range of body sizes, are among the most familiar qualities of dinosaurs, the early theropods were both small and fairly uniform.
    • Russell reminds readers that we do not know the biogeographic origin of birds, or theropods, or dinosaurs.
    • Allosaurus is the most common of the theropods, making up more than 60% of all theropod specimens.
    • We know that it is a dromaeosaur, a theropod and relative of Velociraptor.
    • Much has been written about the small, late Cretaceous theropods known as alvarezsaurids.
    • The next largest carnivores were usually dromaeosaurs or other, much smaller theropods.
    • The bones of ceratosaurians, like those of all known theropods, are hollow.
    • T. rex is a member of a large group of dinosaurs called theropods.
    • If no later birds had evolved, Archaeopteryx would be classified as a feathered theropod, assuming we understood feathers in the absence of birds.
    • Much fossil evidence has been uncovered supporting the idea that birds evolved from a group of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs called theropods.
    • Sifting through the collection, they separated out the bones of a theropod, or meat-eating dinosaur.
    • Some theropods probably ate other dinosaurs' eggs.

Origin

1930s: from Greek thēr 'beast' + pous, pod- 'foot'.

Definition of theropod in US English:

theropod

nounˈTHirəˌpäd
  • A carnivorous dinosaur of a group whose members are typically bipedal and range from small and delicately built to very large.

    兽脚亚目食肉恐龙

    Suborder Theropoda, order Saurischia; includes the carnosaurs, ornithomimosaurs, coelurosaurs, and dromaeosaurids

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Case said the shape of the teeth and features of the feet were characteristic of a group of dinosaurs known as theropods, which includes the tyrannosaurs, as well as all other meat-eating dinosaurs.
    • We know that it is a dromaeosaur, a theropod and relative of Velociraptor.
    • However, these feathered theropods are clearly just one small group of dinosaurs, and if they were all transported to modern times, they are so similar we would put them all in the same small group.
    • The bones of ceratosaurians, like those of all known theropods, are hollow.
    • If no later birds had evolved, Archaeopteryx would be classified as a feathered theropod, assuming we understood feathers in the absence of birds.
    • Hence, we are suggesting that the pattern of lung ventilation during running in non-avian theropods was the opposite of that observed in recent birds.
    • Just to add an element of confusion, actual birds evolved from the lizard-hipped theropods, not from the bird-hipped ornithischians.
    • Apparently, however, the jaws of theropods were relatively weaker for their length than those of carnivorans.
    • Some theropods probably ate other dinosaurs' eggs.
    • Although great size, as well as a great range of body sizes, are among the most familiar qualities of dinosaurs, the early theropods were both small and fairly uniform.
    • Much fossil evidence has been uncovered supporting the idea that birds evolved from a group of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs called theropods.
    • Much has been written about the small, late Cretaceous theropods known as alvarezsaurids.
    • Allosaurus is the most common of the theropods, making up more than 60% of all theropod specimens.
    • The next largest carnivores were usually dromaeosaurs or other, much smaller theropods.
    • Accumulating evidence suggests that living birds are the direct descendants of theropods, a group of meat-eating dinosaurs that walked on two legs.
    • The theropods include such charismatic extinct animals as Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as the only surviving dinosaurs - the birds.
    • Dromaeosaurs, a group of small, fleet-footed dinosaurs in the theropod family, are thought to be the closest known relatives of birds.
    • Russell reminds readers that we do not know the biogeographic origin of birds, or theropods, or dinosaurs.
    • T. rex is a member of a large group of dinosaurs called theropods.
    • Sifting through the collection, they separated out the bones of a theropod, or meat-eating dinosaur.

Origin

1930s: from Greek thēr ‘beast’ + pous, pod- ‘foot’.

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