Tyrannosaurus regina

By replacing rex (Latin rēx (“king”)) of Tyrannosaurus rex with Latin rēgīna (“queen”).

In olden days man fought Tyrannosaurus rex; nowadays he battles Tyrannosaurus regina—his wife.

1965 January 22, “Time Listings”, in Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, volume 85, number 4, page 2:

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:

It’s Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest flesh-eating animal that ever thunked across the earth.[…]It’s made of chicken wire, plastic and rags dipped in gooey glue.[…]Meanwhile, he is in the school, probably looking for a Tyrannosaurus regina.

1971 April 29, Kathleen Bowman, “Thunk! A monster is born: Little fingers fashion a Tyrannosaurus rex”, in Enquirer and News, Battle Creek, Mich., page A-12:

[…]in adolescence the developing dinosaur is entrusted to Miss Tyrannosaurus Regina whose long life and virginity ensure her authority:[…]

1978, Evan Zimroth, Giselle Considers Her Future, Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 45:

A survey published last week found that only five per cent of the men in the entire labour force have wives who don’t work. After I’d read that, I stood in front of the mirror. And there she was, outlined in the twilight, a rare glimpse of a large mammalian female on the verge of extinction. Too big in the body, too little in the head, Tyrannosaurus Regina. We shall not see her ilk again.

1981 December 23, [Jill Tweedie], “All I ask, Mary, is when you visit, throw me a cream bun, OK: Letters from a fainthearted feminist”, in The Guardian, London, Manchester, page 8:

For 99.9% of the Cretaceous week, tyrannosaurus rex would kill anything that moved, eat anything that didn’t, break up the landscape, laugh at its own lousy jokes, belch, scratch, snore, pull the hairs out of its nostrils, and go to lodge meetings. In the five hebdomadal minutes remaining (usually on Saturday night), it would suddenly leap on tyrannosaurus regina with terrible ineptitude.

1982 July 21, Alan Coren, “A Short History”, in Punch, volume 283, number 7392, page 77:

Her [Sandra Weintraub’s] next project is a remake of “The Lost World,” the classic about a hidden valley where dinosaurs still exist. Maybe she’ll make the Tyrannosaurus Rex into a Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1983 April 3, Eleanor Ringel, “Papa makes write choice”, in The Atlanta Journal □ The Atlanta Constitution, page 1-H:

[…]was restored Tyrannosaurus regina.

“As for the relationship between my mother-in-law and us. The gentlemen of the press have speculated that the Queen — or Tyrannosaurus Regina, as we affectionately call her sometimes . . .”

1985 November 7, Pete McMartin, “It’s tough being top people”, in The Sun, volume 99, number 306, Vancouver, B.C., page five:

All that image-building and reputation-slaying in the name of democracy, and at the end of it another four years in opposition to the Tory Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1987, Maureen Lipman, Something To Fall Back On, Robson Books, →ISBN, page 185:

When I bat my eyelashes, monks spew away their last chances at Heaven! Nuns and junkies give up their habits for me! I drove the Whore of Babylon out of business! Astarte invented aphrodisiacs just to keep up with me! I am a mink in heat, I am a Tyrannosaurus Regina on the make, I make Jaws look like a Small-Mouthed Bass!

1989, Magistra Batrix/Magus Coyote, “Brag of the Female SubGenius”, in The Stark Fist of Removal, volume 17, No. 41 & 42, The SubGenius Foundation, Inc., pages 44–45:

Yet there we were, helplessly and snugly surrounded by Soup’s hoop, with an old rope snaking upward, ending in the clenched fists of the meanest kid in our solar system . . . Janice Riker, the inhuman replica of Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1990, Robert Newton Peck, Soup’s Hoop, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 6:

Does the disgruntled majordomo have nothing nice to say about this tyrannosaurus regina?

1991 March 23, Fern Brooks, “Marlo Thomas ‘Princess of Pain’: Former servant takes his revenge on glamor family”, in Calgary Herald, page E10:

Did you notice how when Tyrannosaurus Regina Thatcher, armed with her memoirs, began to stalk Calamity John Major through the political jungle, not only did they wheel out ‘Tarzan’ Heseltine to come to his aid but also the Conservative answer to Mills and Boon — Lord Jeffrey Archer?

1993 October 14, Olivia W Lockerbie, “Finlay isn’t a mole, he’s an albatross!”, in The Galloway News, page 9:

When we went to the movies, we saw one of two things: dinosaurs, or a film in which women dressed as men or men dressed as women. In short, it was the year of Tyrannosaurus Regina.

1993 December 26, Jay Stone, “1993: Everything that could go wrong …”, in The Ottawa Citizen, page F1:

A snaky neck coiled, and it was coming down at us, and it was all teeth. “Tyrannosaurus Regina,” Aaron whispered. “Cretaceous period. Meat-eater.”

1995, Richard Peck, Lost in Cyberspace, Puffin Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 15:

Unfortunately, we used to have several candidates for that crown in the early days, and a few such dinosaurs survive. Romance Queens of the genus Tyrannosaurus Regina. But most romance writers are as everyday as Hamburger Helper: hard-working women—and a few brave men—who labor in obscurity to earn five figures, all of them with no more personal pizzazz or prima donna temperament than a sponge mop.

1996, Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Diamond Dazzle: A Midnight Louie Mystery, New York, N.Y.: Forge, →ISBN, page 76:

Sue the Tyrannosaurus Rex (Regina?) is coming soon to a museum near you.

1997 October 17, “Sue T-Rex: Not just another pretty face”, in South Bend Tribune, 125th year, number 223, page A10:

‘Of course,’ Rupert told the Sunday dragon lady on the World at One, Thelma the Tyrannosaurus Regina as they called her in the English Broadcasting Corporation.

1998, Peter Preston, 51st State, Viking, →ISBN, page 209:

AS QUEENSLAND voters approach the ballot boxes like so many stegosaurus heading for the watering hole, the tyrannosaurus regina of Australian politics, Ms Pauline Hanson, has revealed her arts policy to the nation.

1998 June 13, Simon Hughes, “Week’s End”, in The Age, page 28:

When one of the popular, rich girls got called out during lunch, it signaled we were all in trouble — rich and popular, average and smart, geeky and just plain invisible — all of us were suitable prey for the roving band of Tyrannosaurus Reginas.

2004 March 14, Karla DeLuca, “The ‘Terminator’ wore a dress in 7th grade”, in The Marshall News Messenger, volume 127, number 288, page 2A:

The biogenetically engineered Tyrannosaurus regina of Jurassic Park (1993) was only the most eagerly awaited and attended of a slew of monstrous women who ruled the nation’s movie screens in the 1980s and 1990s. The two decades brought forth dozens like her: the rapacious queen of Aliens (1986), the scheming sea-witch Ursula of The Little Mermaid (1989),[…]

2005, Joshua David Bellin, Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation, Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 107:

WAS it Tyrannosaurus rex or Tyrannosaurus regina? Until now, telling the tyrant-lizard kings from their queens has been pure guesswork. But the discovery of an unusual type of bone in a T. rex femur[…]

“Meaning what?” sniffled the dinosaur snottily into the fluffy white mantle of her nice, big, thick fur coat with purple bits all over it. “Well, meaning you’re one better than just a silly old t rex; you’re a tyrannosaurus regina!”

2005 July, Jonathan Reed-Stuart, Cybersaur! The Adventures of Chloe & George, the Internet Dinosaur, volume I, →ISBN, page 105:

Just short of the overturned vehicle, Tyrannosaurus rex stopped and sniffed the air, suspecting a trap—food was not supposed to give up quite so easily as this. Tyrannosaurus regina, however, was less fearful. She charged as the driver clambered up out of the capsized yellow hulk, slid to the ground, and fled across the field toward the crest of the knoll.

2006, Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop, “Crab”, in Deborah Layne, Jay Lake, editors, Polyphony, volume 6, Wheatland Press, →ISBN, page 134:

The film’s [Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs] plot, if one can call it that, involves the return of the Tyrannosaurus Regina to reclaim her hatchlings and take Sid to a lush, tropical underworld so different from Sid’s familiar icy territory.

2009 July 1, Carrie Rickey, “‘Ice Age’ franchise: Melting, melting …”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 181st year, number 31, page E4:

He described Lynda as a spoiled and lethal “Tyrannosaurus Regina” with a red rictus smile and a “death-lizard voice,” alternately screaming at him and utterly dependent on the veneer of class she thought he gave them despite his towering ineptitude as a butler.

2011, Michael Gross, Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 481:

Wake up from your history dream of echoing terror screams and share your song name with these lost children so I open my eyes to see Her glowing face and her sweet song rings my heart so alive I leap and twirl and somersault clapping my hands in drumming rhythm on tingling spine handsprings of hope to catch up with angels running swift in fluttering robes through tangled forests of grumbling oaks as we dodge dinosaur legs through endless halls of Jewel Cathedral where Tyrannosaurus Regina Demon Queen sits on Lotus Disk that twirls petal propellers to soar among stars over our small world.

2017, Simon Albert Craig Seamount, Gothiniad, →ISBN, page 267:

In her mind, she’s Tyrannosaurus regina crossed with a medieval witch.

2018, Ruth Hamilton, For the Love of Liverpool, Pan Books, published 2019, →ISBN:

(often humorous and figurative) A female Tyrannosaurus rex.


snake-eating cobra

en-noun

snake-eating cobra (plural snake-eating cobras)

[O]ur worst foe of this kind was a large light brown snake, which I think from subsequent experience must have been the reptile known as the Ophiophagus elaps, or snake-eating cobra.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 94:

Ophiophagus hannah
Ophiophagus hannah#Translingual

(archaic) A king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).


Nikolsky's viper

Nikolsky's viper (plural Nikolsky's vipers)

Named after Alexander Nikolsky (1858–1942), Russian herpetologist.

The PLA2s were purified from the venoms of the banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus), the steppe viper (Vipera renardi) and the Nikolsky’s viper (Vipera nikolskii). The most active was the heterodimeric PLA2 HDP-2 from the Nikolsky’s viper, which exhibited nanomolar virucidal activity.

2022 June 10, Oliveira, A.L., Viegas, M.F., da Silva, S.L. et al., “The chemistry of snake venom and its medicinal potential”, in Nature Reviews Chemistry, volume 6, →DOI, page 463:

A venomous viper, Vipera nikolskii, endemic to Ukraine, eastern Romania, and southwestern Russia.


Central American whiptail

Central American whiptail (plural Central American whiptails)

Actually, this last behavior is a good move for males of a number of species. Another lizard species, the Central American whiptail, has been observed offering a potential partner a lovely dead frog to eat before mating.

2022 October 24, Hannah Thomasy, “They May Have Love on Their Lizard Brains”, in The New York Times:

A brown-colored lizard, Holcosus festivus, native to Central America and northern South America.


six-lined racerunner

six-lined racerunner (plural six-lined racerunners)

Aspidoscelis sexlineatus, a species of lizard native to the United States and Mexico.


blunt-nosed viper

blunt-nosed viper (plural blunt-nosed vipers)

En route, Charlie had slammed on the brakes to avoid running over a 3ft snake crossing the road. According to Mary it was a young (and deadly) blunt-nosed viper.

2016 August 16, Nigel Thompson, “Western Cyprus will leave you splendidly stuffed but still hungry for more”, in Daily Mirror:

A venomous viper, Macrovipera lebetinus, found in North Africa, much of the Middle East, and as far east as Kashmir.


Texas lined snake

Texas lined snake (plural Texas lined snakes)

Tropidoclonion lineatum texanum, a subspecies of the lined snake.


ringed spinytail iguana

ringed spinytail iguana (plural ringed spinytail iguanas)

Morunasaurus annularis, a species of iguana.


D'Orbigny's slider

D'Orbigny's slider (plural D'Orbigny's sliders)

A species of water turtle (Trachemys dorbigni) in the family Emydidiae.


emo skink

/ˌiːməʊ ˈskɪŋk/


false map turtle

false map turtle (plural false map turtles)

Graptemys pseudogeographica, a turtle endemic to the United States.


arrau turtle

In the times of Soini's arrival, the arrau turtle was a real rarity.

2013, Matti Salo, Anders Sirén, Risto Kalliola, Diagnosing Wild Species Harvest: Resource Use and Conservation, page 122:


sunwatcher

One who tracks the movement of the Sun, as to keep time.


coffee snake

A Central American colubrid snake of the genus Ninia.


water anole

Most anoles live in trees, but the water anole lives along the banks of streams[…].

2004, Daniel J. Bickel, Glenn M. Shea, Encyclopedia of Discovery: Reptiles and Insects, Fog City Press, page 216:

A type of anole, Anolis aquaticus; a dactyloid lizard native to the western coast of Costa Rica.


Orinoco crocodile

Orinoco crocodile (plural Orinoco crocodiles)

A South American crocodile of species Crocodylus intermedius.


sideneck

Today, side-necks are found only in the southern hemisphere, where they inhabit rivers and ponds in Australia, South America and Madagascar.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 29:

side-necked turtle
side-necked turtle#English


earless dragon

Any of the Australian lizards of the genus Tympanocryptis.


curlytail

A Caribbean lizard of the family Leiocephalidae.


shadow snake

A South American snake of the genus Synophis.


ball python

Python regius, a python native to West and Central Africa that coils into a ball when threatened.


Blanding's turtle

Blanding's turtle (plural Blanding's turtles)

Named after the American naturalist Dr. William Blanding.

A semiaquatic turtle of species Emydoidea blandingii, native to central and eastern parts of Canada and the United States.


Burmese python

Python bivittatus, a large python native to Southeast Asia and invasive in Florida.


Cuban crocodile

Cuban crocodile (plural Cuban crocodiles)

A crocodile of species Crocodylus rhombifer, endemic to Cuba.


Jew lizard

eastern bearded dragon
eastern bearded dragon#English

Synonym of eastern bearded dragon (“Pogona barbata”)


eastern bearded dragon

eastern bearded dragon (plural eastern bearded dragons)


egg-eater

Any of various snakes of the genus Dasypeltis, which feed exclusively on eggs.


leopard snake

The non-venomous colubrid snake Zamenis situla.


bobtail skink

Tiliqua rugosa, an Australian blue-tongued skink.


sand asp

a ruin’d well, / Where the shy sand-asps bask and swell

1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Love’s Apparition and Evanishment”, in The Poetical Words of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, page 132:

the Saint began / Upon his flute to breathe his magic tune, / Such as the serpent-charmers use to charm / The sand-asps forth,

1876, Walter Thornbury, “The Legend of St. Vitus”, in Historical and Legendary Ballads and Songs, London: Chatto and Windus, page 44:

For several days they roll around in style, and then the inevitable snafu strikes like a sand asp: it turns out the new Humvees are registered on the books of one of the other 425th teams, and even though the other guys aren’t using them they want them back:

2005, Rob Schultheis, chapter 14, in Waging Peace: A Special Operations Team’s Battle to Rebuild Iraq, New York: Gotham Books, page 167:

Vipera ammodytes
Vipera ammodytes#Translingual

The horned viper or sand viper (Vipera ammodytes).


harlequin snake

harlequin snake (plural harlequin snakes)

Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead, a venomous viper found in the eastern United States.

Micrurus fulvius, the eastern coral snake, a venomous elapid found in the eastern United States.

Micrurus tener, the Texas coral snake, a venomous elapid found in the southern United States and northern/central Mexico.


New Mexico whiptail

New Mexico whiptail (plural New Mexico whiptails)

Aspidoscelis neomexicanus, a parthenogenetic female-only species of lizard found in the southwestern United States in New Mexico and Arizona, and in northern Mexico in Chihuahua.


centipede-eater

Any of various snakes, of the genus Aparallactus, native to Africa.


Burmese star tortoise

Burmese star tortoise (plural Burmese star tortoises)


Indian star tortoise

Indian star tortoise (plural Indian star tortoises)


smooth green snake

smooth green snake (plural smooth green snakes)

A non-venomous North American colubrid snake of species Opheodrys vernalis.


three-toed box turtle

three-toed box turtle (plural three-toed box turtles)

Terrapene triunguis, a species of box turtle that is native to the United States.


African spurred tortoise

African spurred tortoise (plural African spurred tortoises)

A species of tortoise, Centrochelys sulcata, inhabiting the southern edge of the Sahara Desert and the Sahel in Africa.


dwarf crocodile

dwarf crocodile (plural dwarf crocodiles)

The smallest of living crocodile, of species Osteolaemus tetraspis, native to the tropical regions of sub-Saharan West Africa and Central Africa.


American crocodile

American crocodile (plural American crocodiles)

A crocodilian of species Crocodylus acutus, native to the neotropics.


Cuvier's dwarf caiman

Cuvier's dwarf caiman (plural Cuvier's dwarf caimans)

Paleosuchus palpebrosus, a small crocodilian native to northern and central South America.


hell chicken

(slang) An extinct theropod dinosaur of the species Anzu wyliei.


chicken from hell

chicken from hell (plural chickens from hell)

(slang) An extinct theropod dinosaur of species Anzu wyliei.


baryonyx

From Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús, “heavy or strong”) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “claw or talon”).

der

Baryonyx walkeri, a theropod from the Cretaceous period discovered in 1983 in Surrey, England by William Walker, believed to be an ancestor of Spinosaurus.


Saint Croix ground lizard

en-noun

Saint Croix ground lizard (plural Saint Croix ground lizards)

Pholidoscelis polops, a small lizard endemic to the U.S. Virgin Islands.


deaf adder

Our deaf adder resembles, in its short, puffy, repulsive appearance, the blow-adder of America.

1828, Peter Miller Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, third edition, volume 1, London: Henry Colburn, page 319:

The death, or deaf adder, is an ugly creature, and is considered highly dangerous.

1833, William Henry Breton, Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Van Dieman's Land, During the Years 1830, 1831, 1832 and 1833, London: Richard Bentley, page 264:

The Death Adder is extremely sluggish in its habits, and rarely moves out of the way of persons approaching it; I am therefore inclined to think, that the original popular name assigned to this reptile, must have been Deaf Adder, instead of the Death Adder.

1845, Clement Hodgkinson, Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay, London: T. and W. Boone, page 212:

Another friend on a cruise, put his saddle down for a pillow at night as usual, and on lifting up the saddle-flaps the next morning, he observed a beastly deaf adder lying flat down.

1846, Christopher Pemberton Hodgson, Reminiscences of Australia, with Hints on the Squatter's Life, London: W. N. Wright; Simpkin and Marshall, page 169:

Snakes of various sizes, from two to ten feet in length, including, perhaps, the venomous deaf adder

1852, R. G. Jameson, Australia and Her Gold Regions, New York: Cornish, Lamport & Co., page 45:

The deaf adder is the most formidable “varmint” in Australia. There are two varieties; it is generally about two feet long. The bite is fatal. The deaf adder never moves unless it is touched, hence its name.

1853, Ellen Clacy, A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia, in 1852–53, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 250:

One day at Charlotte Waters, during my second visit, they brought in a specimen of what was evidently either the “deaf-adder” (Acanthophis antarctica) or another species of the same genus.

1896, Baldwin Spencer, “Through Larapinta Land: A Narrative of the Horn Expeditoin to Central Australia”, in Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia, London, Melbourne: Dulau and Co.; Melville, Mullen and Slade, page 42:


angonoka tortoise

angonoka tortoise (plural angonoka tortoises)


radiated tortoise

radiated tortoise (plural radiated tortoises)

Astrochelys radiata, a species of tortoise that is native to Madagascar.


common snapping turtle

common snapping turtle (plural common snapping turtles)

Chelydra serpentina, a large freshwater turtle that lives in shallow, slow-moving bodies of water with muddy bottoms.


red-footed tortoise

red-footed tortoise (plural red-footed tortoises)

Chelonoidis carbonarius, a medium-sized tortoise native to northern South America and the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Barbados.


black marsh turtle

black marsh turtle (plural black marsh turtles)

A freshwater turtle of species Siebenrockiella crassicollis, endemic to southeast Asia.


Argentine black and white tegu

Argentine black and white tegu (plural Argentine black and white tegus)

Argentine black and white tegus (plural)

Tupinambis merianae, otherwise known as the Argentine Black and White tegu, has had a complicated taxonomic history […]

2005 September 14, Joanna Carolyne Piercy, Estimating metabolic rate in tegu lizards (Tupinambis merianae): can one calculate oxygen consumption from heart rate?, Vancouver: University of British Columbia, →DOI, page 10:

A large, opportunistic lizard, the Argentine black and white tegu is at home in a variety of habitats, including villages and the outskirts of cities.

2014 July 21, Chris Mattison, “Reptiles”, in Nature Guide: Snakes and Other Reptiles and Amphibians (DK Nature Guides; 5), New York: DK Publishing, →ISBN, page 175:

The Argentine black and white tegu, already a problem in Florida and Georgia, has the “potential to be a big issue” if the reptile is able to establish itself in the region[…]

2024 January 2, Amaris Encinas, “South Carolina fears non-native tegu lizards could take root and wreak ecological havoc”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 2024-01-14:

the largest tegu lizard, native to eastern and central South America (Salvator merianae).


flying lizard

Any of the species of lizards that are capable of gliding, of the genus Draco.


timber rattlesnake

timber rattlesnake (plural timber rattlesnakes)

Crotalus horridus
Crotalus horridus#Translingual

Any of species Crotalus horridus of rattlesnakes.


Morelet's crocodile

Morelet's crocodile (plural Morelet's crocodiles)

A crocodile of species Crocodylus moreletii.


draco lizard

Any of the lizards of genus Draco, which are capable of gliding.


common European adder

common European adder (plural common European adders)

A venomous snake of species Vipera berus, in the family Viperidae, that can be found throughout much of Europe, and as far as East Asia

béésh Bichʼahii Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ tłʼiish báhádzidígíí


gorgosaurus

gorgosaurus (plural gorgosauruses or gorgosauri)

gorgosauruses (plural)
gorgosauri (plural)

From the genus name, Gorgosaurus, from Ancient Greek γοργός (gorgós, “grim, fierce, terrible”) + -saurus (suffix forming genus names of dinosaurs).

der

No. 1 is in the Stone age, the time when man went around dressed in a bearskin and threw rocks at prehistoric monsters called Ankylosauri, Gorgosauri or Triceratops.

1930 April 22, Murray, “Ruth Throughout the Ages”, in The Evening Star, number 31,402, Washington, D.C., page C—1, columns 3–4:

The Gorgosaurus is notable for its ability to maintain a high speed chase for some distance, unlike the Tyrannosaurus or Allosaurus. Also, it can bound for its full length in an attack leap! Like Allosaurus, Gorgosaurus is terribly jealous of its territory, but it will permit a female to range in its territory and often forms a mated pair hunting team for the spring and summer. Typical ranges are the same as that of the Allosaurus, but Gorgosauri will also enter swamps, sticking to the shallows and to the dry land of the mounds dotting swamps.

1979, Wes Ives, Edward E. Simbalist, Saurians (Chivalry & Sorcery), Jericho, N.Y.: Fantasy Games Unlimited; republished in Red Book, 5th edition, 2013, page 59, column 1:

Having seen how quickly and savagely the gorgosauri and the allosaurus had devastated the exploration team, Ian and Rebecca had a fearful respect for the meat-eating species.

1981, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, page 127, column 1:

Gorgosauri are carnivores, usually hungry, and may attack anything encountered unless they have just eaten a very large meal.

1987, Rudy Kraft, Paul Jaquays, Greg Stafford, Sandy Petersen, Griffin Island (RuneQuest), 3rd edition, 5th volume, Eastwood, Notts.: Games Workshop Ltd, →ISBN, page 15, column 1:

Henry Beissel asks in “First Canto: Landscape,” “What artist dare raise his vision from the dead/centre of creation against this dinosaur indifference?” (CN, 7). Mention of dinosaurs, pterodactyls and gorgosauruses in particular, recurs in the Tenth and Eleventh Cantos as part of his geological imagery (CN, 45-55).

1987, Valerie Broege, “Puer Country: Imaging Canada and Its American Shadow”, in Spring: An Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought, Dallas, Tex.: Spring Publications, Inc., →ISBN, →ISSN, page 22:

Hadrosaurs — duck-billed, plant-eating creatures weighing up to 3,600 kilograms — were the most common dinosaurs in what is now the park. The shallow water at the sea’s edge suited their partially webbed feet and provided vegetation for their diet. The water also served as a refuge from the giant meat-eating gorgosauruses that preyed on them.

1995, The Beauty and Splendor of North America: Scenic Treasures of Canada and the USA, Montreal, Que.: The Reader’s Digest Association Canada Ltd., →ISBN, page 18:

In this context, the figments of Lesje’s imagination — the visions of gorgosauruses, pterodactyls, and iguanodons — function at the point of suture as the seamlike line of junction between her Imaginary existence and a symbolic one.

1996, Sonia Mycak, In Search of the Split Subject: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood, Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, →ISBN, page 128:

I think you have just killed three Gorgosauri or Gorgasaurus,^([sic]) whichever is grammatically correct. They are like us, misplaced in time. We saw one on the disk Fanny made with the first exploration ship. We were afraid they would come over the wall one day. They should have been extinct sixty-five million years ago.

2005, Belle Smith, chapter 25, in Lucian’s Place, Baltimore, Md.: PublishAmerica, LLLP, →ISBN, pages 311–312:

In 1997, the amateur fossil hunters Cliff and Sandy Linster, digging near Chorteau, Montana, unearthed the skeleton of a dinosaur – a 72-million-year-old female gorgosaurus. Gorgosauruses are not particularly rare, but this one had an interesting quirk. Rattling around inside its skull was a bone ball. It was an extraskeletal osteosarcoma – a bone tumour – which would have encroached on its cerebellum and its brainstem.

2009, Charles Foster, “Who’s Right? Evidence and the Lack of It”, in The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 79:

A tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur of the genus Gorgosaurus that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian), between about 76.6 and 75.1 million years ago.


purple-glossed snake

en-noun

purple-glossed snake (plural purple-glossed snakes)


panther chameleon

panther chameleon (plural panther chameleons)

Furcifer pardalis, a Madagascan chameleon.


Great Plains rat snake

Great Plains rat snake (plural Great Plains rat snakes)

Pantherophis emoryi, a North American species of nonvenomous semi-arboreal rat snake.


map turtle

Any freshwater turtle of genus Graptemys

G. p. kohnii

Graptemys pseudogeographica (Gray, 1831) – false map turtle


eight-lined keelback

eight-lined keelback (plural eight-lined keelbacks)

From eight + lined + keelback, calque of translingual Hebius octolineatus.

calque

Hebius octolineatus, a species of keelback snake found in southwestern China.


day gecko

Any gecko of the genus Phelsuma, notable for being diurnal when most other geckos are nocturnal.


foxsnake

Common name of three North American rat snakes of genus Pantherophis.


Central American bushmaster

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Central American bushmaster (plural Central American bushmasters)

Lachesis stenophrys, a species of pit viper.


yellow-bellied sea snake

yellow-bellied sea snake (plural yellow-bellied sea snakes)

A venomous species of sea snake found in the tropical oceanic waters around the world except for the Atlantic Ocean.


Jackson's chameleon

Jackson's chameleon (plural Jackson's chameleons)

Described by Belgian-British zoologist George Albert Boulenger in 1896 and named after English explorer and ornithologist Frederick John Jackson, who was serving as the first Governor of Kenya at the time of Boulenger’s description.

A chameleon of species Trioceros jacksonii, native to Africa, but also introduced to Hawaii, Florida, and California.

Frederick John Jackson
George Albert Boulenger


black-breasted leaf turtle

black-breasted leaf turtle (plural black-breasted leaf turtles)

Geoemyda spengleri, a species of endangered turtle from Southeast Asia.


snouted cobra

Naja annulifera, a highly venomous species of cobra found in Africa.


eyelash viper

A species of venomous pit viper, Bothriechis schlegelii, in the family Viperidae, native to Central and South America.


pitless viper

A type of venomous snake that is smaller and less developed than other vipers, and lacks the heat-sensing pits located on the sides of its head.


Mexican mud turtle

Mexican mud turtle (plural Mexican mud turtles)

Mexican + mud turtle, named after its range.

Kinosternon integrum, a species of mud turtle endemic to Mexico.


Mexican garter snake

Mexican garter snake (plural Mexican garter snakes)

Mexican + garter snake, due to its range.

Thamnophis eques, a species of snake most commonly found in lake basins of Mexico, with smaller populations in Arizona and New Mexico.


Colorado Desert sidewinder

Colorado Desert sidewinder (plural Colorado Desert sidewinders)

Colorado Desert + sidewinder, so called due to its range.

Crotalus cerastes laterorepens, a subspecies of the sidewinder rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes) found in the Colorado Desert.


blue racer

A subspecies of snake, Coluber constrictor foxii


black racer

Coluber constrictor
Coluber constrictor#Translingual

A snake of species Coluber constrictor, of North and Central America, especially US.


dinobird

From dinosaur and bird. Equivalent to dino- + bird.

A dinosaur with feathers and other bird-like characteristics.


dart snake

(archaic) A lance skink, any of the genus Acontias of legless skinks.


emydine

(zoology) Any turtle in the subfamily Emydinae.


deirochelyine

(zoology) Any turtle in the subfamily Deirochelyinae.


Tonkin pit viper

Tonkin pit viper (plural Tonkin pit vipers)

Tonkin + pit viper, a partial calque of translingual Ovophis tonkinensis (literally “Tonkinese egg-snake”) or translingual Trimeresurus tonkinensis.

partial calque

Ovophis tonkinensis, a species of common pit viper found in Southeast Asia.


gargoyle gecko

Rhacodactylus articulatus, a gecko native to New Caledonia.


crested gecko

A species of gecko; Correlophus ciliatus.