Associations to the word «Compsognathus»

Wiktionary

COMPSOGNATHUS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Compsognathidae   — small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaurs, about the size of a turkey, which lived around 150 million years ago.

Dictionary definition

COMPSOGNATHUS, noun. Very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats