Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various extinct carnivorous mammals of the suborder Creodonta, of the Paleocene Epoch to the Pliocene Epoch.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the Creodonta.
- n. One of the Creodonta.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From New Latin Creodonta, suborder name : Greek kreas, flesh; see kreuə- in Indo-European roots + Greek odous, odont-, tooth. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Apterodon intermedius, sp. nov., a new European creodont mammal from MP22 of Epenheim (Germany).”
“We think it is maybe a bear dog Daphoenodon or a creodont.”
“After I got it prep'ed I am now leaning toward creodont see below.”
“The well-known plantigrade tread of bears is a primitive characteristic which has survived from their creodont ancestry.”
“This order, which includes lemurs, monkeys, apes, and man, seems to have sprung from a creodont or insectivorous ancestry in the lower Eocene.”
“According to the Wikipedia caption, the illustration shows the creodont”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘creodont’.
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derogatory terms I should use more often
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Name-Calling for Fun and Profit
I figured out the thing all these terms have in common, besides that they can be used as insults. They all crack me up.
drip, yahoo, dweeb, nimrod, wanker, nincompoop, weasel, skank, fussbudget, dink, twit, guttersnipe and 125 more...
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Words of Dinosaurology
This quickly got bigger and weirder than originally intended, so now it's housing terms that relate to the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. See also Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Ichthy...
zygopophyses, ziphodont, plesiomorphic, cleidoic, endothermy, ectothermy, viviparous, vertebrae, cervical, dorsal, sacral, caudal and 628 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Depraved and Insulting English
Vocabulary from Peter Novobatzky's and Ammon Shea's highly entertaining book of words I wish I could use in conversation.
ablutophobic, aboiement, abydocomist, acalculiac, achilous, acokoinonia, acrocephalic, acrotophiliac, acrotomophiliac, ameliotist, apotemnophiliac, monopediomaniac and 349 more...
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sionnach a primitive, small-brained animal Jan 1, 2008