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May have been a scavenger rather than an active predator
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tyrannosaurus
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Pick out some of the comparisons that really helped you imagine what tyrannosaurus rex was like. ▪ This poem describes tyrannosaurus rex, by using comparisons.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A large carnivorous dinosaur, of the genus ''Tyrannosaurus'', found in North America during the late Cretaceous period.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
carnivorous Cretaceous bipedal dinosaur, 1905, Modern Latin genus name, coined by H.F. Osborn (published 1906 in "Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History" XXI, p.259) from comb. form of Greek tyrannos "tyrant" (see tyrant ) + -saurus . Abbreviated ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 [syn: tyrannosaur , Tyrannosaurus rex ]
Usage examples of tyrannosaurus.
Animals bulkier than the Diplodocus or more forbidding than tyrannosaurus may have roamed the Earth in the thousands, and we may never know it.
One tyrannosaurus, his flung-out leg half mincemeat from the thigh down, continued to drag out and gobble the guts of the triceratops he had slaughtered.
A fantastic adventure that was to take Doc Savage and his men into a land where time had stopped, a lost world where the brontosaur and the tyrannosaurus, the largest and most ferocious monsters produced by evolution since time began, were the only kings.
Midgard Serpent, and if we can ever reach back far enough we can house a Brontosaur and a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Before their eyes, a triceratops, head lowered, charged forward and plunged sharp horns into the carotid artery of an attacking tyrannosaurus.
Three more tyrannosauruses swooped onto the mammoth body of the triceratops, crumpled just six meters in front of their home.
While the triceratops rammed the first tyrannosaurus again, tearing at its insides, the second tyrannosaurus was lumbering through the forest directly toward them, smashing everything in its path underfoot.
Oviraptor, a therapod relative of the Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus rex and the Jurassic predator Allosaurus, but about the size of a small ostrich.
The embryos were arranged by species: Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, Hadrosaurus, Tyrannosaurus.
Mariella stops at a truck stop beyond Palm Springs, in the shadow of a gigantic purple tyrannosaurus and a yellow apatosaurus, but gets little sleep in her air-conditioned capsule room because of the noise of the big rigs that come and go all night like gigantic creatures at a waterhole.
And at first, just like the Tyrannosaurus, Colonel Muammar Baraka was afraid of nothing.
There are very few accounts of such behavior even in contemporary reptiles, and it is difficult to picture Tyrannosaurus rex brooding on a clutch of eggs.
By morning the combat had almost ended, and the countless corpses of triceratopses and tyrannosauruses, some still barely twitching the tips of their tails, some dragging the ripped tatters of their stomachs, lay tumbled across the landscape.
The smaller dinosaurs were scattering in all directions, trying to flee the tyrannosauruses, making all kinds of different noises as they ran.
The pack of tyrannosauruses dashed for the subdivision like a conveyor belt, a never-ending stream.