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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Dicynodontidœ.
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According to Sir B. Murchison, such have been the main features of Africa during countless ages; 'for the old rocks which form her outer fringe, unquestionably circled round an interior marshy or lacustrine country, in which the dicynodon flourished at a time when not a single animal was similar to any living thing which now inhabits the surface of our globe.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 Various 1841
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