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Definition: Tyrannosaurus |
TyrannosaurusNoun1. Large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having enormous teeth with knifelike serrations; may have been a scavenger rather than an active predator; Upper Cretaceous; North America. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tyrannosaurus" was first used: 1905. (references) |
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Biology & Biotechnology | A predator dinosaur. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: TyrannosaurusSynonym: tyrannosaur (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tyrannosaurus |
| English words defined with "tyrannosaurus": allosaur, allosaurus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tyrannosaurus" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (tyrannosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex). |
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Screenplays | That's a Tyrannosaurus. (Jurassic Park III; writing credit: Peter Buchman) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The gillnet catch being brought in. The species being fished for included, blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis; silver perch, Bairdiella chrysoura; atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannosaurus; weakfish, Cynoscion regalis; Atlantic croaker, Micropogonus undulatus; white perch, Morone americanus; striped bass or rockfish, Morone saxatilis and; bluefish, Ponatomus saltatrix. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| "Tyrannosaurus Rex" by Melissa Squires Commentary: "The big trex at the chicago museum. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Tyrannosaurus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.25% of the time. "Tyrannosaurus" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.25% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tyrannosaurus": genus Tyrannosaurus ♦ tyrannosaurus rex. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "tyrannosaurus": tyrannosaurus-featured. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "tyrannosaurus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | tyrannosaure. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yrannosaurustay.(various references) | |
Russian | тиранозавр (tyrannosaur). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | tyrannos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tyrannosaurus. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "tyrannosaurus": tyrannosauruses. (additional references) | |
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"Tyrannosaurus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tyrannasaurus, tyrannousaurus, tyranosaurus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tyrannosaurus" (pronounced tiranusô"rus) |
| 6 | -u s ô" r u s | Brontosaurus, stegosaurus, thesaurus. |
| 5 | -s ô" r u s | sorus. |
| 4 | -ô" r u s | chorus, maquiladoras, Morris, porous. |
| 3 | -r u s | actress, ambassadress, ambidextrous, arris, buttress, Cirrus, citrus, congress, Cypress, Cyprus, cytomegalovirus, desirous, dextrous, disastrous, embarrass, estrous, estrus, ferrous, fibrous, fortress, hantavirus, headmistress, heiress, hubris, huntress, hydrous, idolatrous, Iris, ludicrous, lustrous, Madras, mattress, mistress, monstrous, nitrous, nonferrous, ogress, polyandrous, puris, retrovirus, seamstress, temptress, terrace, virus, waitress, walrus, wondrous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-n-n-o-r-r-s-s-t-u-u-y" | |
-1 letter: tyrannosaurs. | |
-2 letters: tyrannosaur. | |
-4 letters: susurrant, tyrannous. | |
-5 letters: assonant, santours, stannary, stannous. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-n-n-o-r-r-s-s-t-u-u-y" | |
+2 letters: tyrannosauruses. | |
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