rex
noun
king.
rex
1 American
[r eks, reks]
/ rɛks, rɛks /
noun
Latin.
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reges
plural
Rex
2
American
[reks]
/ rɛks /
noun
Rex
3
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[reks]
/ rɛks /
noun
Rex
British
/ rɛks /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Rex
After Christus Rex, title of a publication put out by its founders
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T. rex was still a scaly, egg-laying reptile, but its 36 C body temperature was much closer to that of a warm-blooded mammal than a modern reptile.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
For more than a century, scientists have tried to reconstruct the biology of Tyrannosaurus rex from bones, teeth, footprints, and other traces left behind more than 60 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
That improvement persuaded L.A.'s Natural History Museum to provide tiny portions of two teeth belonging to Thomas the T. rex, the most complete of the towering tyrannosaur skeletons displayed in the museum's dinosaur hall.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Museum paleontologists excavated some 70% of Thomas’s fossilized skeleton in the early 2000s, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
I’m not even sure why Crenshaw was a cat, and not a dog or an alligator or a Tyrannosaurus rex with three heads.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
"These kind of impacts are not normal. They're unprecedented for our community," said Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson during a weekend press conference.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Although the announcements bode well for the industry, Bill Birmingham, the head of research at Rex Financial, noted that they are mostly focused on setting standards for now.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Since that time, Rex said, he’s seen a growing number of remote workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“I ended up here because of the pandemic. It just went on and on, so I decided to open the bookstore,” said bookshop owner Michael Rex.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“Would you like to come out,” Rex Rollins says, putting down another can of Diet Coke and licking his fingers of, I believe, hot-wing sauce, “and stand on the little black x.”
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
On his refusing this honour, Mary wrote, or caused to be written, the following lines in Latin and French: Sunt comites, ducesque alii; sunt denique reges; Sethom dominum sit satis esse mihi.
From The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott
In the meantime the Grecian army receives loss on loss, and is half destroyed by a pestilence into the bargain:- "Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi."
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
"Et nunc, reges, intelligite; erudimini, qui judicatis terram:" Understand now, ye kings of the earth; learn, ye who judge the world.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
The achivi is the people, and the McClellanists are the reges.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
Vergil's own words would imply that his early effort centered about Aeneas' wars in Italy; the sixth Eclogue, Cum canerem reges et proelia, is rather explicit on this point.
From Vergil A Biography by Tenney Frank
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