compsognathus

1. 1.

   very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria

   Broadertheropod

   Part ofgenus Compsognathus

Other forms of compsognathus

plural

compsognathuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about compsognathus

What does compsognathus mean?

compsognathus means "very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria".

How many syllables are in compsognathus?

compsognathus has 4 syllables: comp-sog-na-thus. The stress falls on "sog".

Is compsognathus a common word?

compsognathus 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.