Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various extinct elephantlike mammals of the genus Deinotherium that existed during the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Epochs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Dinotherium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) See
dinotherium .
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- noun Alternative form of
dinotherium .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We meet in this period animals of the elephant kind, two species, the mastodon and deinotherium.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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The great mammals of the Pliocene age, again, such as the deinotherium and the mastodon, were also, in their way, very big things in livestock; but they scarcely exceeded the modern elephant, and by no means came near the modern whales.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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The sabre-toothed lion has gone the way of all flesh; the deinotherium and the colossal ruminants of the
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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You might think it a hairy elephant or a deinotherium -- but none of the animals are the same as we have ever had here.
Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864
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“These are the molar teeth of the deinotherium; this femur must have belonged to the greatest of those beasts, the megatherium.
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"These are the molar teeth of the deinotherium; this femur must have belonged to the greatest of those beasts, the megatherium.
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866
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