1. laelaps - Noun
2. Laelaps - Proper noun
A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHowever, Lawrence Lambe used the name Dryptosaurus incrassatus instead of Laelaps incrassatus when he described the remains in detail in 1903 and 1904, citation citation a combination first coined by Oliver Perry Hay in 1902. Source: Internet