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dromeosaur

dromeosaur is the alternative spelling of dromaeosaur.

Meaning of dromaeosaur

Noun

dromaeosaur (plural dromaeosaurs)

  1. Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.
    • In communities with megatheropods, Ms. Schroeder and colleagues found what they call a “carnivore gap”: a large swath of medium-size niches that were empty. For instance, the Hell Creek Formation, a well-studied fossil area that stretches from modern day Utah to Alberta, was once home to 630-pound...2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times
    Synonyms:
    dromaeosaurid

Forms of dromeosaur

pluraldromeosaurs

Questions about dromeosaur

What is dromeosaur the alternative spelling of?
Dromeosaur is the alternative spelling of dromaeosaur.

Words near dromeosaur in the dictionary

  1. dromedarist
  2. dromedarists
  3. dromedary
  4. dromedary camel
  5. dromedary camels
  6. dromeosaur
  7. dromeosaurid
  8. dromeosaurids
  9. dromeosaurs
  10. dromes
  11. drometrizole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dromeosaur (page history and authors); dromaeosaur (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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