Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An animal of the genus Brontatherium.
Etymologies
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Examples
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(And in North American megafauna, a fantasy art image of an arctic war brontothere) I want one.
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The Age of Mammals uses a mounted saber-toothed cat, a giant jaguar, a brontothere or thunder beast that resembles a dinosaur more than a mammal to help tell its evolution story.
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The dead brontothere shown would have been about the size of a modern rhinoceros.
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The team used an analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes extracted from the fossil teeth of three varieties of mammals from Ellesmere Island -- a hippo-like, semi-aquatic creature known as Coryphodon, a second, smaller ancestor of today's tapirs and a third rhino-like mammal known as brontothere.
bilby commented on the word brontothere
Brontohere.
November 11, 2008