Noun: deinonychus
| Singular | deinonychus |
| Plural | deinonychuses; deinonychi |
Sample Sentences
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The first attempts were made on the remains of duckbill dinosaurs found in the Coleville River dig, but the real success was made when the University located the remains of three deinonychi at an Amoco drill site on the Alaskan North Slope. [1990 November, Allen Steele, “Trembling Earth”, in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, numbers 11–12 (whole 162–163), New York, N.Y.: Davis Publications, Inc., section 1 (The Mesozoic Express), page 64:]
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Bella kept half an eye out for the deinonychi. The deinonychus dinosaurs with the teeth and raking claws were big solid humans in the real. [1994, Gwyneth Jones, North Wind, New York, N.Y.: Tor, published 1996, →ISBN, page 224:]
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In that chamber, lying curled, or sitting hunched, were five saurians: two deinonychi and three smaller ones that looked like some kind of miniature tyrannosaur. [1997, Diane Duane, The Book of Night with Moon, New York, N.Y.: Aspect, Warner Books, →ISBN, page 248:]
Nouns inflected like deinonychus
deinonychus,
shamus,
pearly nautilus,
splenic plexus,
paper nautilus,
boletus,
sight radius,
subfocus,
pandanus,
pegasus,
zoilus,
Bohr radius,
black fungus,
ranunculus,
prodromus,
periannulus,
organ pipe cactus,
pluteus,
star cactus,
periplous, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From translingual Deinonychus (1969), from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “fearful, terrible”) (see dinosaur) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail, claw, talon”).