dicynodont

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the infraorder Dicynodontia of dominant herbivores of the Late Permian, the most successful group of non-mammalian synapsids.

Word forms

dicynodont dicynodonts

Etymology

From di- + cyno- + -odont. From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “twice”) + κύων (kúōn, “dog”) + ὀδόντος (odóntos, “tooth”).

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