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oviraptors

oviraptors is the plural of oviraptor.

Meaning of oviraptor

Noun

oviraptor (plural oviraptors)

  1. Any of several bipedal dinosaurs, of the genus Oviraptor, from the late Cretaceous period.
    • In all three fossil samples, the concentration of biliverdin is higher than that of protoporphyrin, suggesting that these oviraptor eggs originally were blue-green.2017 October 11, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian

Questions about oviraptors

What is oviraptors the plural of?
Oviraptors is the plural of oviraptor.

Words near oviraptors in the dictionary

  1. oviraptorids
  2. oviraptorosaur
  3. oviraptorosaurian
  4. oviraptorosaurians
  5. oviraptorosaurs
  6. oviraptors
  7. oviraptosaurian
  8. oviraptosaurians
  9. oviraptosaurid
  10. OVIs
  11. ovisac

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