baryonyx

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Baryonyx walkeri, a theropod from the Cretaceous period discovered in 1983 in Surrey, England by William Walker, believed to be an ancestor of Spinosaurus.

Word forms

baryonyx baryonyxes

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús, “heavy or strong”) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “claw or talon”).

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