Noun: deinonychus
- Swift, agile, wolf-sized bipedal dinosaur with a large curved claw on each hind foot; lived during the Cretaceous period
"The discovery of Deinonychus helped change the perception of dinosaurs as slow, lumbering creatures"
Derived forms: deinonychuses
Type of: maniraptor
Part of: genus Deinonychus
Encyclopedia: Deinonychus