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paravian

/pəˈɹeɪviən/

paravian noun: any birdlike dinosaur of the clade Paraves, dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to oviraptorosaurs.

Noun

paravian (plural paravians)

  1. Any birdlike dinosaur of the clade Paraves, dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to oviraptorosaurs.
    • We note that the difference forelimb:hindlimb ratio is within the range of intraspecific variation in two paravian taxa known from multiple specimens, Microraptor 17 and Archaeopteryx 19 20, and is therefore not likely to be a clearly distinguishing feature between Tianyuraptor and Zhanyuanlong .2015 July 16, Junchang Lü, Stephen L. Brusatte, “A large, short-armed, winged dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its implications for feather evolution”, in...

Forms of paravian

pluralparavians

Origin of paravian

Paraves + -ian

Questions about paravian

What does paravian mean?
Paravian means any birdlike dinosaur of the clade Paraves, dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to oviraptorosaurs.
What part of speech is paravian?
Paravian is a noun.
How do you pronounce paravian?
Paravian is pronounced /pəˈɹeɪviən/.
What is the plural of paravian?
The plural of paravian is paravians.

Words near paravian in the dictionary

  1. paravestibular
  2. paravet
  3. paraveterinarian
  4. paraveterinarians
  5. paravets
  6. paravian
  7. paravians
  8. paravinogradovite
  9. paravirtual
  10. paravirtualisation
  11. paravirtualisations

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