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paravians

paravians is the plural of paravian.

Meaning of paravian

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...

Questions about paravians

What is paravians the plural of?
Paravians is the plural of paravian.

Words near paravians in the dictionary

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

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