Word Meanings - THEROPODA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Ornithopoda
  An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Generalizing
  of Generalize
• Generatrix
  That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent.
• Quadruped
  Having four feet.
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Generalize
  To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
• Henceforth
  From this time forward; henceforward.
• Quadrupedal
  Having four feet; of or pertaining to a quadruped.
• QUADRUPLANE
  An aëroplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces.
• Generalizer
  One who takes general or comprehensive views.
• Henceforward
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• Quadruple
  Fourfold; as, to make quadruple restitution; a quadruple alliance.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Birdlike
  Resembling a bird.
• Generally
  In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
• Megalosaurus
  A gigantic carnivorous dinosaur, whose fossil remains have been found in England and elsewhere.
• Quadrupled
  of Quadruple

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