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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The typical genus Of Sivatheriidæ.
  • noun An animal of this genus; a sivathere.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Paleon.) A genus of very large extinct ruminants found in the Tertiary formation of India. The snout was prolonged in the form of a proboscis. The male had four horns, the posterior pair being large and branched. It was allied to the antelopes, but very much larger than any exsisting species.

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  • Also sivathere; a fossil ruminant of great size, with four horns, discovered in the Siwalik or Sub-Himalayan hills in Northern India, believed to've resembled an immense Gnu or Antelope. Latin, from Siva/Shiva (the Hindu god) + Greek for "wild beast."

    August 8, 2008