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Jurassic creature whose name means "different lizard"
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allosaurus
Alternative clues for the word allosaurus
- Terror in Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World"
- Reptile at the top of the Jurassic food chain
- Similar to but somewhat smaller than tyrannosaurus
- Extinct carnivore whose name means "different lizard"
- Late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur
- Jurassic genus whose name means, literally, "different lizard"
- Literally, "different lizard"
Word definitions for allosaurus in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A large, carnivorous dinosaur, of genus ''Allosaurus'', that lived in the Jurassic period.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur; similar to but somewhat smaller than tyrannosaurus [syn: allosaur ]
Usage examples of allosaurus.
A moment later a towering creature, an allosaurus, broke through the ferns and stared down at them with small red eyes.
The allosaurus had almost overtaken him before Tipchak tumbled head over heels down a low bank and into the tar pit.
And as with pre-Fall humans suffering serious injury or premature death, as Daeman once experienced upon being eaten by an allosaurus, Firmary birth was something so traumatic that it had to be blocked from memory.
Daeman go to a fax pavilion when the allosaurus ate him ten months ago?
The allosaurus was carefully stalking Skuld, squaring off against the giant to keep him away from the mortal troops.
The allosaurus made a small, excited sound, looking the winged woman over with wild eyes.
The allosaurus bellowed, either in agreement or in protest at being called a little boy.
Jane and the allosaurus ran around the ruined garden and tore down another arcade.
The 30-foot carnivore named Afrovenator abattensis was related to the fierce predator Allosaurus that had lived 30 million years before in the Jurassic of North America.
Oviraptor, a therapod relative of the Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus rex and the Jurassic predator Allosaurus, but about the size of a small ostrich.
A rat scurried in front of her, scrambling for safety within a gaping allosaurus eye socket.
The huge allosaurus, thirty feet long from snout to tail, pounded out of the darkness at twenty miles per hour, ducking under branches as it lunged.
The allosaurus took the cane and arm both, ripping the arm free at the shoulder.
The sudden change, plus the welcome sight of the oh-so-familiar servitors, plus his terror in being back in the firmary so soon after the allosaurus episode, made his legs too weak for him to stand even in the swimming-pool g-field.
But this allosaurus dated from before the time of true magic and it gave a full-hard chomp, the kind that crunches bones.