dinothere

[ dahy-nuh-theer ]

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noun

any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.

dinothere

/ ˈ�岹ɪ��əˌθɪə /

any extinct late Tertiary elephant-like mammal of the genus Dinotherium (or Deinotherium ), having a down-turned jaw with tusks curving downwards and backwards

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< New Latin Dinotherium (1829); dino-, -there

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C19: from New Latin dinotherium, from Greek deinos fearful + �ٳ�ŧ��ǲ�, diminutive of �ٳ�ŧ�� beast

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The Dinothere and the Mastodon wallowed and browsed where great London now crowds its princely palaces.

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In the great swamps of emerging Germany, and in the, as yet, only half-drained valleys of Switzerland, lurked then the heavy Dinothere.

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