PROTOAVIS

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Meaning:

Most primitive avian type known; extinct bird of the Triassic having bird-like jaw and hollow limbs and breastbone with dinosaur-like tail and hind limbs

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("protoavis" is a kind of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

Holonyms ("protoavis" is a member of...):

genus Protoavis (extinct primitive birds of the Triassic period; 70 million years before archaeopteryx)

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