Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun allosaurus

1 sense of allosaurus

Sense 1
allosaur, allosaurus -- (late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur; similar to but somewhat smaller than tyrannosaurus)
       => theropod, theropod dinosaur, bird-footed dinosaur -- (any of numerous carnivorous dinosaurs of the Triassic to Cretaceous with short forelimbs that walked or ran on strong hind legs)