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  • proper noun a taxonomic genus, within family Dromaeosauridae - the velociraptor dinosaur

Etymologies

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Latin velox, swift + raptor, thief

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Examples

  • I'm guessing my best bet here is to tackle the Velociraptor from the side and try to pin its legs down with my body and maybe clamp its jaw shut with my hands and hope it has trouble forcing its mouth open, like an alligator does.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • I'm guessing my best bet here is to tackle the Velociraptor from the side and try to pin its legs down with my body and maybe clamp its jaw shut with my hands and hope it has trouble forcing its mouth open, like an alligator does.

    Is this the premise of Saw VI? 2008

  • Since they formed in 2004, Kasabian have fired out three double-platinum albums in a row with a fourth, this year's magnificently-titled Velociraptor!

    Evening Standard - Home David Smyth 2011

  • David Price also known as Velociraptor Jesus, Price throws a hard fastball that moves and a slider that sits in the upper 80s.

    Baseball Analysts 2009

  • David Price also known as Velociraptor Jesus, Price throws a hard fastball that moves and a slider that sits in the upper 80s.

    Baseball Analysts 2008

  • Evidence of feeding by theropod dinosaurs, such as Velociraptor or Tyrannosaurus rex, are scarce in the fossil record and the fighting dinosaurs is the most dramatic example known potentially illustrating such behaviour.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • Evidence of feeding by theropod dinosaurs, such as Velociraptor or Tyrannosaurus rex, are scarce in the fossil record and the fighting dinosaurs is the most dramatic example known potentially illustrating such behaviour.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • Dromaeosaurids such as Velociraptor and Deinonychus have proportionately as large olfactory bulbs as tyrannosaurids, but these are not interpreted as obligate scavengers.

    Planet Atheism 2009

  • "It had plenty of reasons to do so: nearby tracks show it shared its home with fleet-footed, meat-eating dromeosaurs, such as Velociraptor"

    New Scientist - Online News 2009

  • Velociraptor because they were pack hunters and probably the Pteradactyle? for wing shooting.

    This one is for all the archaeologists and History Channel fans out there. 2009

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