n. 迅猛龙
velociraptor 疾走龙
veloc-,速度,词源同velocity,-rapt,抓住,词源同rapture,代指猛兽,龙。用于指一种速度迅速的龙。
The first (Fig. 1) of the typical megalosaurian type, although of small size, seems to have been an alert, swift-moving carnivorous dinosaur to which the generic name Velociraptor is applied. [Henry Fairfield Osborn, "Three New Therapoda, Protoceratops Zone, Central Mongolia," in "American Museum Novitates," Nov., 7, 1924]