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Meaning of Tyrannosaurus rex | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/taɪˌɹænəˈsɔːɹəs ˈɹɛks/

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Tyrannosaurus rex.
    alt-of, countable, uncountable
  2. A giant carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous period.

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Examples

“Some of the most spectacular beasts in East Coast museums happen to be Tyrannosaurus rexes from Montana.”
“"Now, Dr. Richgels, you picked a folder from the story box. Could you show us the one that you picked?" Mine shows two Tyrannosaurus rexes fighting […]”
“So Lyell's view is not inconsistent with Dollo's Law of Irreversibility in that, under awful (i.e., evolutionary) changes, biological organisms would not follow the same unlikely path regenerating, say, DNA-exact Tyrannosaurus rexes from ancestral chicken stock in some future age.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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