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US
/tɪɹænəˈsɔɹəs/
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[ UK /tˌɪɹɐnəsˈɔːɹəs/ ]
[ UK /tˌɪɹɐnəsˈɔːɹəs/ ]
NOUN
- large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having enormous teeth with knifelike serrations; may have been a scavenger rather than an active predator; later Cretaceous period in North America
How To Use tyrannosaurus In A Sentence
- From these reptiles would come some of the greatest creatures in the history of earth; the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the giant sauropods, to name a few.
- You might even find the fang of a pliosaur, a vicious 30ft reptile nicknamed the tyrannosaurus rex of the sea. Times, Sunday Times
- School children lured no doubt by these impressive animatronics and a 40-foot high tyrannosaurus rex, which we're told boarded Noah's Ark two by two despite its carnivorous grin.
- Although old drawings of Tyrannosaurus rex give the beast an almost erect stance and a long reptilian tail, which dragged on the ground.
- Scientists find first ever southern tyrannosaur dinosaur: Tyrannosaurus rex, once believed to have only roamed the Earth north of the Equator, may also have lived in the southern hemisphere, paleontologists said Thursday. Archive 2010-03-21
- The neighbouring Museum of Natural History has the third-largest dinosaur collection in the world, including skeletons of tyrannosaurus rex, diplodocus and stegosaurus.
- Eckels is hurtled back to a primeval jungle to bag the biggest of game, the Tyrannosaurus rex, with the added charge that he must not disturb any other part of the natural world, lest he upset the delicate time-space continuum.
- 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.
- I can't wait to see the singer's tyrannosaurus rex costume. The Sun
- Tyrannosaurus Rex was a large carnivore