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tyrannosaurus
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tyrannosaurus
(noun)
tyrannosaurus
/təˌrænə
ˈ
sorəs/
noun
plural
tyrannosauruses
tyrannosaurus
/təˌrænə
ˈ
sorəs/
noun
plural
tyrannosauruses
Britannica Dictionary definition of TYRANNOSAURUS
[
count
]
:
a very large meat-eating dinosaur
—
called also
T. rex
,
tyrannosaurus rex
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