Theropoda

Theropods ('beast feet') are a group of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs. Although they were primarily carnivorous, a number of theropod families evolved herbivory, during the Cretaceous Period. Theropods first appear during the Carnian age of the Late Triassic about 220 million years ago (MYA) and were the sole large terrestrial carnivores from the Early Jurassic until the close of the Cretaceous, about 65 MYA. Today, they are represented by the 9,300 living species of birds, which evolved in the Late Jurassic from small specialized coelurosaurian dinosaurs.
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(n. pl.)
An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus, and their allies.
  

Noun
1. carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs with short forelimbs; Jurassic and Cretaceous
(synonym) suborder Theropoda
(hypernym) animal order
(member-holonym) Sauropodomorpha, suborder Sauropodomorpha
(member-meronym) theropod, theropod dinosaur, bird-footed dinosaur