rex
noun
king.
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rex
1 American
[r eks, reks]
/ rɛks, rɛks /
noun
Latin.
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reges
plural
Rex
2
American
[reks]
/ rɛks /
noun
Rex
3
American
[reks]
/ rɛks /
noun
Rex
British
/ rɛks /
noun
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Origin of Rex
After Christus Rex, title of a publication put out by its founders
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The "Dueling Dinosaurs" discovery became crucial to the research published by Lindsay Zanno and James Napoli that classified Nanotyrannus as separate from T. rex.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
"Jodi" was initially exhibited as a juvenile T. rex at London's Frieze Masters international art fair in October 2023, before the Nanotyrannus genus was classified.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Another mystery is how and why Dianjunus rex evolved such an extraordinary size.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Megaraptorans were closely related to tyrannosaurs including Tyrannosaurus rex but had slender heads and attacked prey with their large arms and giant curved claws instead of their jaws.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The notable exception being the Tyrannosaurus rex, which was found by Barnum Brown in 1902.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
“From the Cliff,” the best track on the record, is infused with pastoral psychedelia, the kind of number Marc Bolan was making in the late ’60s, when his band was still called Tyrannosaurus Rex.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Eddie's wife Irene and their daughter Dawn moved in with Rachel's dad Rex and her brother Ian.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
San Clemente QB Preston Beck is also hurting, with receivers Ryan Matheson and Jaxson Rex potential big-play weapons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
"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
Rex is considerably smaller than the tiger, with mats in his mane and ribs showing under his dull coat.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
Eusebius says that at the beginning of the Olympiads Lacedæmoniorum reges defecerunt, which error arose from the lists ending here, which had been made for computing the preceding periods.544.Apollod. ap.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
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
It is something to be thankful for if we have not to apply to them the adage—Quic-quid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi—'When kings go mad their people get their blows.'
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
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
Certainly German progress shows that the Germans can have no ground to quote: “Quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi,” of their Emperor.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier
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