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tyrannosaurid

tyrannosaurid noun: any dinosaur in the family Tyrannosauridae.

Noun

tyrannosaurid (plural tyrannosaurids)

  1. Any dinosaur in the family Tyrannosauridae.
    • Similarly, the North American tyrannosaurid, Aublysodon, is reported from east Asia.1965, David Jay Simmons, The non-therapsid reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China, page 84
    • Once again, Phil Currie says it definitely was a tyrannosaurid, most closely related, by braincase comparison, to Tarbosaurus. Chingkankousaurus fragilis was named by C. C. Yang in China in 1958.1993, John R. Horner, The Complete T. Rex, page 134

Forms of tyrannosaurid

pluraltyrannosaurids

Questions about tyrannosaurid

What does tyrannosaurid mean?
Tyrannosaurid means any dinosaur in the family Tyrannosauridae.
What part of speech is tyrannosaurid?
Tyrannosaurid is a noun.
What is the plural of tyrannosaurid?
The plural of tyrannosaurid is tyrannosaurids.

Words near tyrannosaurid in the dictionary

  1. tyrannosaur
  2. Tyrannosaura Regina
  3. tyrannosauri
  4. Tyrannosauri reges
  5. tyrannosaurian
  6. tyrannosaurid
  7. tyrannosaurids
  8. tyrannosaurine
  9. tyrannosaurines
  10. tyrannosauroid
  11. tyrannosauroids

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