allosaurus

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large two-legged carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Allosaurus that lived during the Late Jurassic period

   The museum mounted an allosaurus skeleton beside the remains of its herbivorous prey.

From New Latin Allosaurus, formed from Greek allos ("other, different") + sauros ("lizard"). Othniel Charles Marsh named the genus in 1877 for vertebrae that differed from those of dinosaurs then known.

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