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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of extinct reptiles, of the suborder Compsognatha, order Ornithoscelida, from the Solenhofen slates of Bavaria, remarkable as being the most bird-like reptiles known. It differs from the genera of Dinosauria proper in the great length of the cervical vertebræ and in the shortness of the femur, which is not so long as the tibia. The astragalus was probably ankylosed with the tibia. The animal had a light bird-like head, jaws with numerous teeth, very long neck and hind limbs, and small fore limbs. According to Huxley, “it is impossible … to doubt that it hopped or walked in an erect or semi-erect position, after the manner of a bird, to which its long neck, slight head, and small anterior limbs must have given it an extraordinary resemblance.”
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A genus of carnivorous Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation with a slender body, and remarkable for having several birdlike features. It reached a length of 30 inches when adult.
WordNet 3.0
- n. very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria
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“If i traveled back in time to the age of the dinosaurs and couldn't escape i would travel around killing compsognathus untill, i was The Supreme Unholy Emperor of the Compsognathus '!”
“If that’s the case, it must have been a compsognathus (which are said to be scavengers and are about as big as a chicken).”
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Dinosaurs
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