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noun
A large, carnivorous dinosaur, of genus Allosaurus, that lived in the Jurassic period.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur; similar to but somewhat smaller than tyrannosaurus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: allosaur
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Broader terms: theropod, theropod dinosaur, bird-footed dinosaur
History
From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other, different”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).
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