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CARNOSAURA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Largest carnivorous land animals ever known
Synonyms:
Carnosaura; suborder Carnosaura
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Carnosaura" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Carnosaura"):
carnosaur (large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having huge claws)
genus Tyrannosaurus (includes a single species)
genus Allosaurus; genus Antrodemus (carnivorous dinosaur of North America; late Jurassic)
Holonyms ("Carnosaura" is a member of...):
suborder Theropoda; Theropoda (carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs with short forelimbs; Jurassic and Cretaceous)