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GENUS MONONYCHUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Authorities disagree over whether to classify the genus as bird or dinosaur
Classified under:
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)
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