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creodont

Today it means: A member of the extinct Creodonta order of mammals that lived from the Paleocene to the Pliocene epoch. Full definition →

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From κρέας (kréas, “flesh”) + οδοντ- (odont-, “tooth”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.