Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Theropoda \The*rop"o*da\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a beast + ?, ?,
   foot.] (Paleon.)
   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.

Source : WordNet®

Theropoda
     n : carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs with short forelimbs;
         Jurassic and Cretaceous [syn: {suborder Theropoda}]