tyrannosaur

English

Etymology

From translingual Tyrannosaurus.

Noun

tyrannosaur (plural tyrannosaurs)

1. Any large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, of the family Tyrannosauridae, that lived in North America during the Cretaceous period.
   • 2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2024 January 11, Meghan Bartels, “Enigmatic Dinosaur Skull Sparks Debate over Tyrannosaur Evolution”, in Scientific American‎^[2]:

     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.

Synonyms

• tyrannosaurus

Translations

large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur

• Arabic: تيرانوصور m
• Armenian: տիրանոզավր (hy) (tiranozavr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暴龙 (zh) (bàolóng)

• Finnish: tyrannilisko (fi)
• French: tyrannosaure (fr) m
• Greek: τυραννόσαυρος (el) m (tyrannósavros)
• Hebrew: טירנוזאורוס m
• Italian: tirannosauro (it) m
• Japanese: ティラノサウルス (ja) (tiranosaurusu)
• Korean: 티라노사우루스 (ko) (tiranosauruseu)
• Polish: tyranozaur (pl) m
• Portuguese: tiranossaurídeo m
• Romanian: tiranozaur m
• Russian: тиранноза́вр (ru) m (tirannozávr)
• Spanish: tiranosaurio (es) m
• Ukrainian: тираноза́вр m (tyranozávr)

Further reading

• “tyrannosaur”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.