ORNITHOMIMIDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ornithomimida mean? 

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

1. lightly built medium-size theropods

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORNITHOMIMIDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lightly built medium-size theropods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ornithomimida; suborder Ornithomimida

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Ornithomimida"):

ornithomimid (lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes)

genus Struthiomimus (small toothless saurischian dinosaurs; later Cretaceous period in Canada)

genus Deinocheirus (a reptile genus of Ornithomimida)

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

suborder Theropoda; Theropoda (carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs with short forelimbs; Jurassic and Cretaceous)