GENUS TYRANNOSAURUS

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Meaning:

Includes a single species

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Tyrannosaurus" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "genus Tyrannosaurus"):

tyrannosaur; tyrannosaurus; Tyrannosaurus rex (large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having enormous teeth with knifelike serrations; may have been a scavenger rather than an active predator; later Cretaceous period in North America)

Holonyms ("genus Tyrannosaurus" is a member of...):

Carnosaura; suborder Carnosaura (largest carnivorous land animals ever known)

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