allosaurus
/ˌaləˈsɔːrəs
/noun
A large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic period.
- Genus Allosaurus, suborder Theropoda, order Saurischia.
- And then she saw two allosauruses appear and the fight was a lot less even.
- I do not mean the nimble, fleet-footed ones like the allosaurus; I mean the slow sloth-type ones that we are encountering at the moment.
Origin
Modern Latin, from Greek allos 'other' + sauros 'lizard'.