paravian means any birdlike dinosaur of the clade Paraves, dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to oviraptorosaurs. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
paravian is pronounced /pəˈɹeɪviən/.
noun
- Any birdlike dinosaur of the clade Paraves, dinosaurs more closely related to birds than to oviraptorosaurs.“We note that the difference forelimb:hindlimb ratio is within the range of intraspecific variation in two paravian taxa known from multiple specimens, Microraptor 17 and Archaeopteryx 19 20, and is therefore not likely to be a clearly distinguishing feature between Tianyuraptor and Zhanyuanlong .”