Definitions
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- noun Any of the large extinct
cats of the familyNimravidae .
Etymologies
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From Nimrod + Latin avus ("ancestor") + -id.
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Examples
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I realized that the “ursonopsid” as we were calling it looked more like a barbourofelid nimravid, so I started calling it the “barbouronopsid.”
Archive 2009-05-01 Peter Bond 2009
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I realized that the “ursonopsid” as we were calling it looked more like a barbourofelid nimravid, so I started calling it the “barbouronopsid.”
chained_bear commented on the word nimravid
"A large cat-like carnivorous mammal of the extinct family Nimravidae.
The nimravids are sometimes called the ‘false sabretooths’, in distinction from similar extinct animals belonging to the family Felidae." (OED)
September 8, 2008