tyrannosaurus

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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

From translingual Tyrannosaurus, from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “tyrant”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

This is what I read: HERE LIES JOHN TIPPET ENGLISHMAN KILLED BY TYRANNOSAURUS 10 SEPT., A.D. 1916 R. I. P. Tippet! — The Land That Time Forgot, Edgar Rice Burroughs

tyrannosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex

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