Tyrannosaurus rex

See also: tyrannosaurus rex and Tyrannosaurus Rex

Translingual

Tyrannosaurus rex reconstruction

Proper noun

†Tyrannosaurus rex m (plural Tyrannosauri reges)

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

Synonyms

• (species): Dynamosaurus rex, Dynamosaurus imperiosus, Tyrannosaurus imperiosus

Hypernyms

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

References

• Tyrannosaurus rex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tyrannosaurus rex on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Tyrannosaurus rex on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Tyrannosaurus rex at Paleobiology Database

English

Alternative forms

• Tyrannosaurus Rex, tyrannosaurus rex

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɪˌɹænəˈsɔːɹəs ˈɹɛks/, /təˌɹænəˈsɔːɹəs ˈɹɛks/

Noun

Tyrannosaurus rex (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, 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, 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, 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
• T-Rex
• T.-Rex

 

Related terms

• Nanotyrannus
• nanotyrannus

 

Translations

dinosaur

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暴龍／暴龙 (zh) (bàolóng), 霸王龍／霸王龙 (zh) (bàwánglóng), 雷克斯暴龍／雷克斯暴龙 (zh) (léikèsī bàolóng)

• Estonian: türannosaurus
• Finnish: tyrannosaurus rex
• French: tyrannosaure (fr) m, Tyrannosaurus rex (fr) m
• German: Tyrannosaurus Rex (de) m
• Japanese: ティラノサウルス (ja) (tiranosaurusu), チラノサウルス (chiranosaurusu), タイラノサウルス (tairanosaurusu), ティラノサウルス·レックス (tiranosaurusu-rekkusu)
• Korean: 티라노사우루스 (ko) (tiranosauruseu), 티라노사우루스 렉스 (tiranosauruseu rekseu)
• Polish: tyranozaur (pl) m
• Russian: тираноза́вр (ru) m (tiranozávr), тираноза́вр-рекс m (tiranozávr-rɛks)
• Swedish: tyrannosaurus rex c, T-rex (sv)