ORNITHOMIMID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ornithomimid mean? 

• ORNITHOMIMID (noun)
  The noun ORNITHOMIMID has 1 sense:

1. lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes

  Familiarity information: ORNITHOMIMID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORNITHOMIMID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("ornithomimid" is a kind of...):

bird-footed dinosaur; theropod; theropod dinosaur (any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ornithomimid"):

struthiomimus (small light-boned toothless dinosaur resembling an ostrich in size and proportions)

deinocheirus (lightly built medium-sized theropod with long limbs and neck)

Holonyms ("ornithomimid" is a member of...):

Ornithomimida; suborder Ornithomimida (lightly built medium-size theropods)