Etymology

dicynodont

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Today it means: A member of the infraorder Dicynodontia of dominant herbivores of the Late Permian, the most successful group of non-mammalian synapsids. Full definition →

Ancient Greek δίς
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromδίς“twice”
  2. English todaydicynodont

From di- + cyno- + -odont. From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “twice”) + κύων (kúōn, “dog”) + ὀδόντος (odóntos, “tooth”).

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