The story
Translated as “Chinese bird-lizard,” from Neo-Latin or Latin Sīna (“China”) + Greek ὄρνις (“bird”) + σαῦρος (“lizard”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sinornithosaurus
Today it means: A small, carnivorous, dromaeosaurid dinosaur which belongs to the family Dromaeosauridae of subfamily Microraptorinae. Full definition →