tyrannosauroid

plural tyrannosauroids

1. Any dinosaur of the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea.

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

   2006 Feb, NewScientist, page 19, column 1

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   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.

   2017 June 7, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian