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# allosaurus

noun (allosaurus, allosauruses; also Allosaurus)

«allosaurus» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A large meat-eating dinosaur that walked on two legs and lived about 150 million years ago, in the Jurassic period, in what is now North America and Europe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allosaurus/#m1)

### In the lessons

In dinosaur lessons, allosaurus was the top hunter of its time, about 8 to 10 metres long, with sharp teeth and three-fingered hands. It lived long before Tyrannosaurus rex. Its name means «different lizard».

### Examples

- Allosaurus was a fierce Jurassic hunter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allosaurus/#x1)
- An allosaurus walked on two strong legs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allosaurus/#x2)
- Allosaurus may have hunted stegosaurus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allosaurus/#x3)
- We saw an allosaurus skeleton at the museum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allosaurus/#x4)
- Allosaurus lived millions of years before T. rex. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allosaurus/#x5)
- The allosaurus had three claws on each hand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allosaurus/#x6)

### Note

Scientific name Allosaurus with a capital A. Use «an allosaurus». Trap: dinosaurs did not live at the same time as people, and allosaurus and T. rex never met.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «allosaurus» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/allosaurus/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«allosaurus» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/allosaurus.html) on Mova free.