NOUN
- late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur; similar to but somewhat smaller than tyrannosaurus
How To Use allosaur In A Sentence
- I do not mean the nimble, fleet-footed ones like the allosaurus; I mean the slow sloth-type ones that we are encountering at the moment.
- Here over thirteen hundred footprints of the plant-eating apatosaurus a.k.a. brontosaurus and the carnivorous three-toed allosaurus, ripple marks, a few clams, a palm frond and some horsetails, fish bones, ooids have all solidified into solid rock. Bird Cloud
- Don't you just wish you had a dwarf allosaurus all your own?? Day in the Life of an Idiot
- Predatory dinosaurs of the Jurassic included fearsome carnosaurs such as Allosaurus, small, fast coelurosaurs, and ceratosaurs such as Dilophosaurus.
- We need a hominid skeleton and an allosaurus skull.
- There's a panel in which a mounted allosaur is is blown up, and the skeleton has been pencilled with adoring detail; it even has recognisably Saurischian hip anatomy and is lit really dramatically by the explosion. The Week's Comics: GA/BC #19, Oracle #2
- He's found a tail bone from a meat-eating Allosaurus that shows a silver-dollar-size hole and a wide gash that a Stegosaurus' spike could have inflicted.
- No one knows who built Greylag; none can say if they were of the race of men or some older, forgotten race that walked upon the earth when the brachiosaurus still made his home in the swamps and the allosaur still gazed out from the hills at dusk, razor teeth glinting in the sunset, and called her hideous children home. Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
- Allosaurus, predecessor to the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the dominant ‘carnosaur’ - carnivorous dinosaur - of the mid-Jurassic age, has been well known to palaeontologists for decades.
- Mr. Cline's creations include an imaginary Civil War battle at his Monster Museum in which Union soldiers are eaten by an allosaurus. Roadside Kitsch Is Fun, but Is It Art? Virginia Museum Sure Hopes So