deinonychus
/daɪˈnɒnɪkəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The first attempts were made on the remains of duckbill dinosaurs found in the Coleville River dig, but the real success was made when the University located the remains of three deinonychi at an Amoco drill site on the Alaskan North Slope."
- "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."
Etymology
From translingual Deinonychus (1969), from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “fearful, terrible”) (see dinosaur) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail, claw, talon”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Deinonychus, δεινός