Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various large carnivorous theropod dinosaurs of the family Allosauridae of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods, having a massive head with narrow jaws, hands with large claws, and sturdy legs with clawed feet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any member of the Allosauridae.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Allosauridae, family name, from Allosaurus, type genus; see allosaurus.]
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Examples
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It hit the allosaurid so hard the beast turned into a giant meatbomb, flesh and bone and blood blasting a red fan across the ferns.
Evopunk Lives! Stones, Episode Two Sean Craven 2009
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It hit the allosaurid so hard the beast turned into a giant meatbomb, flesh and bone and blood blasting a red fan across the ferns.
Archive 2009-07-26 Sean Craven 2009
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Flannery TF, Rich THV (1981) An allosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria, Australia.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Scott A. Hocknull et al. 2009
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