nondinosaur

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noun

Any organism that is not a dinosaur.

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Meanings

nounnondinosaur (plural nondinosaurs)

plural nondinosaurs

  1. Any organism that is not a dinosaur.
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    According to a large dataset presented in this study, the body sizes of all nonplantigrades (including nonvolant dinosaurs, nonvolant terrestrial birds, extant mammals, and extinct Nearctic mammals) are above 500 g, except for macroscelid mammals (i.e., elephant shrew), a few alvarezsauroid dinosaurs, and nondinosaur ornithodirans (i.e., the immediate ancestors of dinosaurs).

    2016 January 21, “Nonplantigrade Foot Posture: A Constraint on Dinosaur Body Size”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From non- + dinosaur.

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