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

1 sense of tyrannosaurus

Sense 1
tyrannosaur, tyrannosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex -- (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)
       => 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)