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MONONYCHUS OLECRANUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Mononychus olecranus" is a kind of...):
maniraptor (advanced carnivorous theropod)
Holonyms ("Mononychus olecranus" is a member of...):
genus Mononychus (authorities disagree over whether to classify the genus as bird or dinosaur)
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