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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of fossil insectivorous mammals, based by Owen upon remains found, along with those of the elephant, deer, and beaver, in a lacustrine deposit at Ostend on the Belgian coast. The type species, P. magnus, was as large as a hedgehog.

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