oviraptor
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See also: Oviraptor
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From scientific Latin Oviraptor (genus name), from Latin ōvi- (“ovi-”) + raptor (because it is believed to have fed on the eggs of other dinosaurs).
Noun
[edit]oviraptor (plural oviraptors)
- Any of several bipedal dinosaurs, of the genus Oviraptor, from the late Cretaceous period.
- 2017 October 11, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian[1]:
- In all three fossil samples, the concentration of biliverdin is higher than that of protoporphyrin, suggesting that these oviraptor eggs originally were blue-green.
Translations
[edit]dinosaur
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