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Webster 1913 Edition
Theropoda
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The-rop′o-da
,Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
θήρ
a beast + [GREEK], [GREEK], foot.] (Paleon.)
An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera
Megalosaurus
, Creosaurus
, and their allies.