Translingual

Tyrannosaurus rex reconstruction

Proper noun

Tyrannosaurus rex m

1. A taxonomic species within the family Tyrannosauridae – a large carnivous dinosaur.

Hypernyms

• (species): Tyrannosauridae - Family; Tyrannosaurinae - subfamily; Tyrannosaurini - tribe; Tyrannosaurus - genus

English

Alternative forms

• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• tyrannosaurus rex

Noun

Tyrannosaurus rex ‎(countable and uncountable, plural Tyrannosaurus rex or Tyrannosaurus rexes or Tyrannosauri reges)

1. A giant carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous period.
   • 1999, Fred Setterberg, America: True Stories of Life on the Road (ISBN 1885211287), page 244:

     Some of the most spectacular beasts in East Coast museums happen to be Tyrannosaurus rexes from Montana.

   • 2003, Donald J. Richgels, Going to Kindergarten: A Year with an Outstanding Teacher (ISBN 0810845334), page 222:

     "Now, Dr. Richgels, you picked a folder from the story box. Could you show us the one that you picked?" Mine shows two Tyrannosaurus rexes fighting […]

   • 2009, Allen A. Debus, Prehistoric Monsters: The Real and Imagined Creatures of the Past (ISBN 0786442816), page 251:

     So Lyell's view is not inconsistent with Dollo's Law of Irreversibility in that, under awful (i.e., evolutionary) changes, biological organisms would not follow the same unlikely path regenerating, say, DNA-exact Tyrannosaurus rexes from ancestral chicken stock in some future age.

Synonyms

• T-rex, T-Rex, T. rex, T. Rex

Translations

English

Noun

tyrannosaurus rex ‎(countable and uncountable, plural tyrannosaurus rex or tyrannosaurus rexes)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Tyrannosaurus rex