MANIRAPTORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Maniraptora mean? 

• MANIRAPTORA (noun)
  The noun MANIRAPTORA has 1 sense:

1. advanced theropods including oviraptorids and dromaeosaurs and possibly even modern birds

  Familiarity information: MANIRAPTORA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANIRAPTORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Advanced theropods including oviraptorids and dromaeosaurs and possibly even modern birds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Maniraptora; suborder Maniraptora

Hypernyms ("Maniraptora" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Maniraptora"):

maniraptor; oviraptorid; genus Velociraptor (advanced carnivorous theropod)

Dromaeosauridae; family Dromaeosauridae (swift-running bipedal dinosaurs)

genus Mononychus (authorities disagree over whether to classify the genus as bird or dinosaur)

Holonyms ("Maniraptora" is a member of...):

suborder Theropoda; Theropoda (carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs with short forelimbs; Jurassic and Cretaceous)