Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dromaeosaurine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dro-maeosaurine
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bird-like theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Dromaeosaurinae.

Example Sentences

"Liaoning dromaeosaurids may simply be a grade on the line to velociraptorines and dromaeosaurines, and short arms may have evolved multiple times in this grade."

Etymology

Back-formation from Dromaeosaurinae.

Inflected Forms

dromaeosaurines (plural)

Questions

What does dromaeosaurine mean?: A bird-like theropod dinosaur of the subfamily Dromaeosaurinae.
Where does dromaeosaurine come from?: Back-formation from Dromaeosaurinae.

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