Tyrannosaurus

See also: tyrannosaurus

Translingual

From Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “tyrant”) +‎ -saurus. Coined by American geologist and eugenicist Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1905.

†Tyrannosaurus m

A taxonomic genus within the family Tyrannosauridae – tyrannosauruses.
- 1999, Fred Setterberg, America: True Stories of Life on the Road (in English), →ISBN, page 244:
  Some of the most spectacular beasts in East Coast museums happen to be Tyrannosaurus rexes from Montana.

(genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Eureptilia, Romeriida – clades; Diapsida – subclass; Archosauromorpha – infraclass; Archosauria – division; Ornithodira – subsection; Dinosauria – superorder; Saurischia – order; Eusaurischia – taxon; Theropoda – suborder; Tetanurae – infraorder; Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria – taxa; †Tyrannosauroidea – superfamily; Tyrannosauridae – family; Tyrannosaurinae - subfamily

tyrannosaur — see tyrannosaur