English noun: tyrannosaur | |||
1. | tyrannosaur (animal) 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 | ||
Synonyms | tyrannosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex | ||
Broader (hypernym) | bird-footed dinosaur, theropod, theropod dinosaur | ||
Member meronym | genus Tyrannosaurus | ||