COMPSOGNATHUS

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Meaning:

Very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria

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Nouns denoting animals

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

bird-footed dinosaur; theropod; theropod dinosaur (any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs)

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

genus Compsognathus (a reptile genus of Theropoda)

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