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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of fossil birds from the London clay (Lower Eocene) of England, having tooth-like projections on the mandible and believed to be related to the gannets (Steganopodes).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) An extinct Eocene bird having the jaws strongly serrated, or dentated, but destitute of true teeth. It was found near London.
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