CARNOSAURA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carnosaura mean? 

• CARNOSAURA (noun)
  The noun CARNOSAURA has 1 sense:

1. largest carnivorous land animals ever known

  Familiarity information: CARNOSAURA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARNOSAURA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Largest carnivorous land animals ever known

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Carnosaura; suborder Carnosaura

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)