Tyrannosaurus
/tɪˌrænəˈsɔːrəs/
noun
1.
any large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the genus Tyrannosaurus, common in North America in upper Jurassic and Cretaceous times: suborder Theropoda (theropods)
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