Rex

¹

[reks]

noun

1. a Belgian fascist party founded in 1935.

rex

²

[reks, reks]

noun

Latin.

plural

reges 

1. king.

Rex

³

[reks]

noun

1. a male given name.

Rex

/ rɛks /

noun

1. king: part of the official title of a king, now used chiefly in documents, legal proceedings, inscriptions on coins, etc Compare Regina 1

Other Word Forms

• Rexist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Rex¹

After Christus Rex, title of a publication put out by its founders

Word History and Origins

Origin of Rex¹

Latin

Example Sentences

Could everything we thought we knew about T. rex growth be wrong?

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A remarkably complete tyrannosaur skeleton has brought new clarity to one of paleontology's longest debates: whether Nanotyrannus was its own species or merely a young Tyrannosaurus rex.

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After extensive analysis, scientists have confirmed that the smaller predator was not a juvenile T. rex, but an adult Nanotyrannus lancensis.

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"This fossil doesn't just settle the debate. It flips decades of T. rex research on its head," says Lindsay Zanno, associate research professor at North Carolina State University and head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

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Distinct traits, including longer arms, a greater number of teeth, fewer tail vertebrae, and unique skull nerve structures, all appeared early in development and are biologically inconsistent with T. rex.

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• czar 
• emperor 
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• monarch