tyrannosaurus
pronunciation
How to pronounce tyrannosaurus in British English:
UK [tɪˌrænə'sɔ:rəs]
How to pronounce tyrannosaurus in American English:
US [tɪˌrænə'sɔrəs]
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- 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
Word Origin
- tyrannosaurus (n.)
- 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 name T. rex attested by 1970 (apparently first as the band name).
Example
- 1. We 've found using our computer models that human sprinter would probably be pretty well match for a muscular tyrannosaurus .
- 2. New fossil evidence supports that tyrannosaurus rex was a cannibal .
- 3. In a 3-d clip from " toy story , " pixar 's computer-animated film , rex the green tyrannosaurus looked so ready to leap off the screen that the crowd gasped .
- 4. Horner , a paleontologist at montana state university , suspects the remains of nanotyrranus may belong to a young tyrannosaurus rex .
- 5. But if feathers truly are the diagnostic criterion , then perhaps things should be the other way round , and stegosaurus , triceratops , diplodocus , tyrannosaurus and their kin should no longer be thought of as terrible lizards , but as overweight , flightless birds .