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单词 coelurosaur
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Definition of coelurosaur in English:

coelurosaur

nounsɪˈljʊərəsɔːsiˈlo͝orəˌsôr
  • A small, slender bipedal carnivorous dinosaur with long forelimbs, believed to be an evolutionary ancestor of birds.

    Infraorder Coelurosauria, suborder Theropoda, order Saurischia: many genera

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Recent studies have agreed that T. rex and the tyrannosaurs belong with the coelurosaurs, not with the carnosaurs as was originally believed.
    • This little animal, Sinosauropteryx, is a fairly primitive coelurosaur, so you would not expect to see feathers on it.
    • Predatory dinosaurs of the Jurassic included fearsome carnosaurs such as Allosaurus, small, fast coelurosaurs, and ceratosaurs such as Dilophosaurus.
    • Around the same time the allosaurs appeared, another subgroup of the tetanurans, the coelurosaurs, also branched off.
    • Most skin impressions from dinosaurs indicate the presence of naked skin, except for integumentary structures in coelurosaurs that may have afforded thermal insulation.

Origin

1950s: from Greek koilos 'hollow' + oura 'tail' + sauros 'lizard'.

 
 

Definition of coelurosaur in US English:

coelurosaur

(also coelurosaurus)
nounsiˈlo͝orəˌsôr
  • A small, slender, bipedal, carnivorous dinosaur with long forelimbs, from which the birds are believed to have evolved.

    Infraorder Coelurosauria, suborder Theropoda, order Saurischia: many genera

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Predatory dinosaurs of the Jurassic included fearsome carnosaurs such as Allosaurus, small, fast coelurosaurs, and ceratosaurs such as Dilophosaurus.
    • Around the same time the allosaurs appeared, another subgroup of the tetanurans, the coelurosaurs, also branched off.
    • Most skin impressions from dinosaurs indicate the presence of naked skin, except for integumentary structures in coelurosaurs that may have afforded thermal insulation.
    • Recent studies have agreed that T. rex and the tyrannosaurs belong with the coelurosaurs, not with the carnosaurs as was originally believed.
    • This little animal, Sinosauropteryx, is a fairly primitive coelurosaur, so you would not expect to see feathers on it.

Origin

1950s: from Greek koilos ‘hollow’ + oura ‘tail’ + sauros ‘lizard’.

 
 
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