Why do raptors and raptors have the same name?

Raptors (birds of prey) are distant relatives of raptors (velociraptors) because they are birds, but what makes them so similar that they share a name? Is it a behavioral or structural thing? Is there a linguistic reason?

  Topic Science Subtopic Biology
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