noun

• A large bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, typically one with greatly reduced forelimbs.

  Infraorder Carnosauria, suborder Theropoda, order Saurischia; includes tyrannosaurus, allosaurus, and megalosaurus

  ‘Allosaurus, predecessor to the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the dominant ‘carnosaur’ - carnivorous dinosaur - of the mid-Jurassic age, has been well known to palaeontologists for decades.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The large carnosaurs and tyrannosaurs also appear to have shorter teeth than would be expected for a mammalian carnivore of their body size.’
  • ‘Many carnosaurs have fairly good-sized forelimbs, unlike the Tyrannosauridae.’
  • ‘In this classification scheme, carnosaurs represent the largest carnivorous animals to ever walk the land.’
  • ‘On average, the carnosaurs were larger than most other theropods.’