allosaur

allosaur
/al"euh sawr'/, n.
a carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Antrodemus (formerly Allosaurus), from the late Jurassic Period of North America, that was about 30 ft. (9 m) long.
[ < NL Allosaurus (1877). See ALLO-, -SAUR]

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