GENUS MONONYCHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Mononychus mean? 

• GENUS MONONYCHUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS MONONYCHUS has 1 sense:

1. authorities disagree over whether to classify the genus as bird or dinosaur

  Familiarity information: GENUS MONONYCHUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS MONONYCHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Authorities disagree over whether to classify the genus as bird or dinosaur

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Mononychus" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "genus Mononychus"):

Mononychus olecranus (a turkey-sized long-legged fossil 75 million years old found in the Gobi Desert having bird-like fused wrist bones and keeled breastbone and a long tail resembling a dinosaur's; short forelimbs end in a single claw instead of wings; classification as bird or dinosaur is in dispute)

Holonyms ("genus Mononychus" is a member of...):

Maniraptora; suborder Maniraptora (advanced theropods including oviraptorids and dromaeosaurs and possibly even modern birds)