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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of extinct solidungulate perissodactyl quadrupeds, based by Leidy in 1858 upon North American remains of Pliocene age, belonging to the family Anchitheriidæ. The animal was a sort of horse with some tapiroid affinities.

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