Tyrannosaura regina

alternative Tyrannosaura Regina

1. alternativeAlternative form of Tyrannosaurus regina.

   You have scaly tail which helps you to stand up—like a tripod, like Tyrannosaura regina, but you are much smaller than she is.

   1971, Bruce McAllister, Humanity Prime, Borgo Press / Wildside Press, page 54

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   TYRANNOSAURA REGINA / HAS BLUNDERED INTO THE LIGHT / I DO NOT RECOGNISE HER / I DID NOT GIVE BIRTH TO HER / I MERELY ROLLED AWAY THE STONE

   1977, Rachel McAlpine, “God the Mother Answers Briefly”, in Stay at the Dinner Party, Dunedin, Otago: Caveman Press, →ISBN, page 36; quoted in Vida Long, Gender and Verse: Religion in New Zealand Women’s Poetry, 1970-2019, Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington, 2020, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2025, page 76

   “So what’s your favorite?” I asked. / “Tyrannosaurus rex.” / It figured. / Something crashed in the other room. Bethany was being Bethany. Tyrannosaura regina, I suppose, would be the female version. / We talked dinosaurs awhile.

   [2001, Pauline Hutchens Wilson, Sandy Dengler, chapter 9, in The Case of the Monster in the Creek (The New Sugar Creek Gang; 6), Chicago, Ill.: Moody Press, →ISBN, page 48

   “Well, if it's any comfort — it's thrown me for a loop how a bright young woman like you could get into all this. I thought the church was a hangover from the Middle Ages, if not the dinosaurs. But you” — he lifts his eyebrows and smiles — “are no Tyrannosaurus rex.” / She laughs.[…] “Glad you remember your Latin. But with me — wouldn't it be Tyrannosaura regina?” / “God, Jerry, damned if I know.”

   [2009, Martha Whitmore Hickman, chapter 15, in The Walls Come Tumbling Down, Nashville, Tenn.: Hummingbird & Heron, →ISBN, page 212

   Indeed, the legends of giant people in the north of Minnesota who could cross the Mississippi with one step probably came into existence from the bragging done about the great growth of corn in Minnesota. Not that it’s all myth: how about those bones that were found in the north of Minnesota that were thought to be those of a dinosaur, Tyrannosaura regina, until enough of the bones were found and assembled and it turned out to be a giant chicken?

   2010, J. Fabian Daly, Bioclock Farm, Accord, Mass.: Birchfield Press, →ISBN, page 28

1. Alternative letter-case form of Tyrannosaura regina.

   One of my personal favorite dinosaurs is the Tyrannosaura Regina. :-)

   2011 February 22, Stan Brown, “The Letter-Carrier Always Rings Twice”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), archived from the original on 23 Sep 2025

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   This strain is found only in females of the sub-variety Tyrannosaurus Rex; these large and muscular specimens are most obviously distinguishable by their constant attempts to camouflage all female characteristics.

   1990, Sarah J. Shorten, “Tyrannosaura Regina (Apis)”, in Ellen Henderson, editor, CAUT Bulletin, volume 38, number 4, Ottawa, Ont.: Canadian Association of University Teachers, published April 1991, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27, column 3

   The coronation of Tyrannosaurus Rex – or rather, in this specific case, Tyrannosaura Regina – will take place this summer, with the release of Steven Spielberg’s film version of Jurassic Park. History’s most imperial Iron Lady will be back on the throne, with history’s most efficient killer, the sickle-clawed Velociraptor, at her side.

   1993 January 16, Neil Reynolds, “At Liberty: Prehistoric icons”, in The Whig-Standard Magazine, Kingston, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, columns 1–2

   It's a little known fact that the largest of the dinosaurs, Brachiosaurus, was in fact a rodent. It was the prey of choice for the evil Tyrannosaurus Rex and its mate, the placid Tyrannosaura Regina because its flavour resembled that of a common semi-flightless proto-bird.

   1993 August 16, Bill Welch, “ferrets”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet), archived from the original on 23 Sep 2025

   “Gotcha!” he murmured in triumph. “Ho, sweetie. Ecce homo. There’s no place you can hide where I can’t find you. Behold Steel, J. H., author of Investigation into an Obscure and Fatal Disease among Transport Mules in British Burma, eighteen eighty-five (Bombay?). The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as Tyrannosaura Regina.”

   1997, Nicholas Kilmer, chapter 5, in O Sacred Head, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 191

   The lawyer it is who meets the most ignominious end, plucked from a port-a-pot by the Tyrannosaurus Rex—or would it be more correct to say Tyrannosaura Regina?

   [2001, Paul Lauter, “Dinosaur Culture: From Mansfield Park to Jurassic Park”, in From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park: Activism, Culture, & American Studies (New Americanists), Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 105