Definitions
Etymologies
- < Modern Latin Velociraptor genus name, from Latin veloci-, velox swift, rapid + raptor(noun) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Until one day when a submarine landed on Kangaroo Island and velociraptor, which is a medium-sized, bipedal, meat-eating dinosaur, climbed out of the submarine.”
“The velociraptor is a bipedal carnivore with a long, stiffened tail and can be distinguished from other dromaeosaurids by its long and low skull, with an upturned snout.”
“Pound for pound, a velociraptor was the most rapacious dinosaur that ever lived.”
“Small animals such as velociraptor that have generally been thought to be dinosaurs are more likely flightless birds, he said.”
“Small animals such as velociraptor that have generally been thought to be dinosaurs are more likely flightless birds," he said.”
“She moves two naked Barbies and a velociraptor into it.”
The Wall Street Journal: Report on the Recent Piggybanking Crisis
“However, I am of the firm opinion that it is in fact a velociraptor.”
“No I will not sex the half-woman, half-velociraptor.”
“I confess, I was hoping it stood for velociraptor or Vulcan or something cool like that.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Fuel-Sipping Prius Gets a Bigger Brother
“At about this time last year I wrote a column on Mike Novacek, whom I believed was the American Museum of Natural History's chief dinosaur hunter, expert, velociraptor whisperer—whatever the term of art is for the big buana, the institution's primo paleontologist.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘velociraptor’.
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apt
apt, rapt, inapt, leapt, aptitude, chapter, capture, rapture, velociraptor, captivate, captious, caption and 77 more...
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Words That Hunt In Packs
Every-time I read Jurassic Park
I get 'dinosaurs on the brain'.
I had some mind fun
with the pack hunter
Velociraptor.velociraptor, velocimetry, velocipedist, velocity, velocirhapsody, velociwrapper, velocirhapsodes, velocirapture, velocette, velocirapdance, velocicrap, flossy wrapped her and 6 more...
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Why I adore this site
A collection of words and phrases that keep me coming back for more.
a priori, why I adore this ..., Chrysotus edwadsi, bletted, casu marzu, darner, melittologist, nabob, omne trinum perfe..., pi-stachio, pinnacle of the b..., pseudomantid and 24 more...
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Favorite Tangible Object Words
Trimming the "Chained Bear's Favorites" list so I don't crash people's computers... like my own...
castanets, whaup, budgie, wallabies, ring-wraith, hobbit, chinchilla, guano, merganser, phalarope, phalarope, curlew and 138 more...
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Logophile, The Back Page (AKA: just c...
node, nexus, locus, toroidal, ivory, kestrel, lyre, muscat, caldera, tapestry, codex, paragon and 103 more...
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Word of the day.
Some days, there will be a word. That word is the word of the day. Other days shall remain wordless. That's just the way things go.
petulant, anisometropia, zoroaster, cram, affinity, proprietary, cupertino effect, sidereal, schmutz, icosanoids, vendetta, bougie and 137 more...
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Dinosaurs
Just the animals themselves. (See the other gigantic tar-pit of a list called "Words of Dinosaurology" for other terms.) Also see this list for some dinosaurs that are considered "proto-birds."
aachenosaurus, abelisaurus, abrictosaurus, abrosaurus, acanthopholis, acanthostega, achelousaurus, acrocanthosaurus, actiosaurus, adasaurus, aeolosaurus, aegyptosaurus and 589 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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pamelad's Words
lugubrious, antediluvian, decrepitude, anomaly, regurgitate, apoplexy, prolix, incapacitate, discontinuity, bellicose, inclement, frangible and 158 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
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vnilla's Words
mellifluous, lackadaisical, effervescent, languorous, lilting, juxtapose, coalesce, desideratum, fey, intrinsic, languid, luminous and 134 more...
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Biolorgy
Fun words about biology
velociraptor, natural selection, hypothalamus, meiosis, lungfish, evolution, nephron, homo erectus, gene, ecology, marsupial, gamete and 8 more...
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tiffani's Words
commentariat, hibakusha, nonpareil, nonplussed, jerrybuilt, lodestar, soi-disant, rout, shtick, pols, supplicant, diffident and 49 more...
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TheWritingLife's Words
exculpatory, perspicacious, internecine, d'oh, rhythm, trachtenberg, cretaceous, megaptera novaean..., velociraptor, ticonderoga, tintinnabulation, amontillado and 8 more...
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What does xkcd mean?
Well, it means this. But here's a list too.
snapple, elefino, ass-car, science, class-hole, katamari, velociraptor, fucking, hedgeclipper, centrifugal force, blogofractal, pointers and 27 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for velociraptor.
happyian "You are still alive when they began to eat you." Sep 17, 2008
bilby *twitches*
For those reluctant to come visit me, I can assure you the Territory Insurance Office does have a Crocodile Attack Insurance policy. It was about a dollar a day last time I looked. Sep 1, 2008
chained_bear You may not want to cancel that insurance just yet, bilby. Lampbane said (repeated) it once, but it bears repeating: "I still size up buildings for their potential as shelter..." Sep 1, 2008
bilby *cancels his Death By Velociraptor Attack insurance* Sep 1, 2008
mollusque Life is so haphazardous these days. Aug 31, 2008
chained_bear The loss of velociraptors, on the other hand... not so much. Aug 31, 2008
palooka The loss of honeybees sionnach would be devastating to our food supply as well as to the ecology. It would be a disaster of the first magnitude. Nov 18, 2007
sionnach Hmmm, yarb, a classic blame-the-victim response. I suspect we may all need to worry about ccd in the not-too-distant future; unless the cause is determined, and a remedy found, the negative ecological ramifications could be far-reaching. Nov 17, 2007
yarb Velociraptors are smart. I can't see them falling victim to such a dumb disorder. Nov 17, 2007
sionnach Whatever happened to killer bees anyway?
This is a question under active study by beepidemiologists worldwide. The prevailing theory is that they fell victim to colony collapse disorder Nov 17, 2007
palooka Damn, I forgot about velociraptors. My attention has been focussed on the imminent invasion of California by killer bees. Whatever happened to killer bees anyway? You never hear about them anymore. Maybe the velociraptors got em.
Life is so hazardous these days. Nov 17, 2007
lampbane "I still size up buildings for their potential as shelter against velociraptor attacks." Nov 17, 2007