Tyrannosaurus rex
noun [ C usually singular ] (also Tyrannosaurus Rex, tyrannosaurus rex) uk/tɪˌræn.əˌsɔː.rəs ˈreks/ us/təˌræn.əˌsɔːr.əs ˈreks/ (abbreviation T-rex)
（恐龙的一种〕暴龙，霸王龙
the largest species (= type) of tyrannosaurus (= a very large, meat-eating dinosaur with large, powerful back legs, small front legs and a long tail)
Tyrannosaurus rex is an icon, a dinosaur known to nearly everyone on the planet. 暴龙是一种标志性形象，地球上几乎无人不知道这种恐龙。
Birds are actually descendants of the carnivorous dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus Rex and velociraptors. 鸟类其实是暴龙及速龙等肉食恐龙的后代。
"Sue", the world's best preserved tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, was discovered in South Dakota. 世上保存最完整的暴龙骨骼被命名为苏，它是在南达科他州发现的。
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- A lot of people really wonder what the skin of Tyrannosaurus rex looked like.
- The frog has roots stretching back to the Cretaceous period when Tyrannosaurus Rex ruled.
- The first skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex was discovered in 1902 in Hell Creek, Montana.
- A tyrannosaurus rex was uncovered in Littleton in 1992.