tyrannosauroid

English

Noun

tyrannosauroid (plural tyrannosauroids)

1. Any dinosaur of the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea.
   • 2006 Feb, NewScientist, page 19, column 1:

     Two skeletons of the oldest known tyrannosauroid have been discovered in what used to be wetland in the Gobi desert of western China.

   • 2017 June 7, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The discovery of simple, shaftless feathers on Dilong paradoxus, a 2-metre-long basal tyrannosauroid from the early Cretaceous of China, led to the suggestion that the tyrannosauroids as a group were feathered.