theropod

音标发音

• 英式音标 ['θɪərə(ʊ)pɒd]
• 美式音标 ['θɪrəˌpɒd]
• 国际音标 ['θiərəpɔd]
• 英式发音

基本解释

• n.兽脚亚目食肉恐龙(前肢小；主要用后肢行走)
• adj.兽脚亚目的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Paleontologists are now carefully studying the closest theropod relatives of birds for clues to how this transition occurred.
  古生物学家正在对鸟类的兽脚亚目最近亲进行仔细研究，以寻找这种转化的线索。
• Since then, however, scientists have found a number of well-preserved theropod fossils with many more featherlike structures, corresponding to downy feathers and feathers with vanes.
  无论如何，从那时开始，科学家已经找到了一定数量的保存完好的，拥有类似羽毛结构的兽脚亚目恐龙化石，这种结构和羽毛绒还有羽毛叶片符合得很好。
• But it is clearly a small, vicious theropod similar to the velociraptors that chased the kids around the kitchen in Jurassic Park.
  普鲁姆高兴地说道。 “但它显然是一只体型不大却性情凶猛的兽脚亚目食肉恐龙，有点像《侏罗纪公园》里在厨房追逐孩子们的那种迅猛龙。”

权威例句

• And don't rule out collecting replicas--Pritzker has a cast of a theropod skull and Myhrvold has casts of all seven known Archaeopteryx, the missing link between dinosaurs and birds.
  FORBES: Dig It
• The Eubrontes prints were made by theropods—the dinosaur group that went on to produce such nightmares as Allosaurus and Tyrannosaurus—and Eubrontes is already 20% bigger than any theropod track recorded from the Triassic.
  ECONOMIST: The rise of the dinosaurs

词组短语

短语

• theropod tracks 兽脚类足迹
• The Theropod Club 恐龙俱乐部
• flying theropod dinosaur 会飞的恐龙

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a type of dinosaur that walked on its back legs and had short front legs

柯林斯英英字典

• any bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaur of the suborder Theropoda, having strong hind legs and grasping hands. They lived in Triassic to Cretaceous times and included tyrannosaurs and megalosaurs

专业释义

生物学

• 兽脚类

  There are 10 tracks sites found around Yanguoxia since the first discovery in 1999, in which the site 1 is the largest one including sauropod, theropod, ornithopod and pterosaur tracks. A bird track-bearing horizon also occurs 2m above this level.
  甘肃永靖盐锅峡自1999年发现足迹化石以来已经共发现10化石点，其中1号点保存足迹类型最为丰富，包括有蜥脚类、兽脚类、翼龙等足迹化石，且在该岩层面的不到2米的砂岩中发现有鸟类足迹。

• 兽脚亚目