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dinosauroid

dinosauroid noun: a hypothetical descendant of troodontid dinosaurs with human-like intelligence and physiology.

dinosauroid: a hypothetical descendant of troodontid dinosaurs with human-like intelligence and physiology
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Noun

dinosauroid (plural dinosauroids)

  1. A hypothetical descendant of troodontid dinosaurs with human-like intelligence and physiology.

Forms of dinosauroid

pluraldinosauroids

Origin of dinosauroid

Blend of dinosaur + humanoid, coined by American-Canadian paleontologist Dale Russell in 1982.

Questions about dinosauroid

What does dinosauroid mean?
Dinosauroid means a hypothetical descendant of troodontid dinosaurs with human-like intelligence and physiology.
What part of speech is dinosauroid?
Dinosauroid is a noun.
What is the plural of dinosauroid?
The plural of dinosauroid is dinosauroids.

Words near dinosauroid in the dictionary

  1. dinosaurish
  2. dinosaurium
  3. dinosaurkind
  4. dinosaurless
  5. dinosaurlike
  6. dinosauroid
  7. dinosauroids
  8. dinosaurologist
  9. dinosaurologists
  10. dinosaurology
  11. dinosauromorph

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