a. Palæont. [f. mod.L. Thēropoda neut. pl. (f. Gr. θηρο-, THERO- + πούς, ποδ- foot) + -OUS.] Of or belonging to the Theropoda, an order of carnivorous dinosaurs in Cope’s classification, having feet like those of mammals. So Theropod, a. = theropodous; sb. a dinosaur of this order.
1889. Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc., XLV. i. 44. Axis of a (? Theropodous) Dinosaur from the Wealden.
1891. Cent. Dict., Theropod.
1901. H. Gadow, in Cambr. Nat. Hist., VIII. x. 425. The whole hind-limb of the Theropodous Compsognathus is far more ornithic than that of any three-toed Ornithopoda.
