bird-footed dinosaur

Questions about bird-footed dinosaur

What does bird-footed dinosaur mean?

bird-footed dinosaur means "any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs".

What is another word for bird-footed dinosaur?

Close synonyms include theropod, theropod dinosaur. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bird-footed dinosaur a common word?

bird-footed dinosaur is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.