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tyrannosaur en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos) Pre-Greekbor. Ancient Greek σαύρα (saúra) Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros)bor. Translingual -saurus Translingual Tyrannosaurusbor. English tyrannosaur Borrowed from translingual Tyrannosaurus. Doublet of tyrannosaurus

Meanings

1. Any large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, of the family Tyrannosauridae, that lived in North America during the Cretaceous period.
   • So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids. 2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American:
   • Instead it belongs to a new species of tyrannosaur, which the researchers have dubbed Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis in a paper published on January 11 in Scientific Reports. 2024 November 1, Meghan Bartels, “Enigmatic Dinosaur Skull Sparks Debate over Tyrannosaur Evolution”, in Scientific American:

Forms

Coordinates

tyrannosaurus

Translations (16)

fr tyrannosaure (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · fi tyrannilisko (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · pl tyranozaur (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · pt tiranossaurídeo (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · he טירנוזאורוס (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · el τυραννόσαυρος (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · ko 티라노사우루스 (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · ro tiranozaur (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · it tirannosauro (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · ar تيرانوصور (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · ja ティラノサウルス (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · ru тиранноза́вр (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · cmn 暴龙 (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · hy տիրանոզավր (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · es tiranosaurio (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur) · uk тираноза́вр (large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur)