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ornitholestids

ornitholestids is the plural of ornitholestid.

Meaning of ornitholestid

Noun

ornitholestid (plural ornitholestids)

  1. (rare) Any member of the family †Ornitholestidae, now superseded by family †Compsognathidae.
    • E. H. Colbert (pers. commun. to Harshbarger, 1957) suggested that Segisaurus looks very much like an ornitholestid; Ornitholestes is found in the Morrison Formation (Jurassic).1975, Dudley W. Bolyard, Deep drilling frontiers of the central Rocky Mountains, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, →OCLC, page 114

Questions about ornitholestids

What is ornitholestids the plural of?
Ornitholestids is the plural of ornitholestid.

Words near ornitholestids in the dictionary

  1. ornithoidichnite
  2. ornithoidichnites
  3. ornithoids
  4. ornithol
  5. ornitholestid
  6. ornitholestids
  7. ornitholite
  8. ornitholites
  9. ornithologer
  10. ornithologers
  11. ornithologic

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