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Noun: non-avian dinosaur
  1. A dinosaur that is not a bird
    "Due to the phylogenetic relatedness, extant birds have been used to inform functional aspects of non-avian dinosaur locomotion"; "locomotion to a more hip-driven locomotion, typical of crocodilians (the only other extant archosaur group), mammals, and hypothetically, bipedal non-avian dinosaurs"

Type of: dino [informal], dinosaur

Encyclopedia: Non-avian dinosaur