SANU

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noun

Any of a group of South American native ungulates, extinct ungulate-like mammals sharing uncertain affinities.

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Meanings

nounSANU (plural SANUs)

plural SANUs

  1. Any of a group of South American native ungulates, extinct ungulate-like mammals sharing uncertain affinities.

    There are SANU equivalents for almost every group of hoofed mammal from the rest of the world […].

    2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 63
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    Radinsky (1981) carried out studies on the brain of litopterns in the context of brain evolution in extinct SANUs.

    2023, María Teresa Dozo, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Thomas E. Macrini, Stig Walsh, editors, Paleoneurology of Amniotes, page 812

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

SANU. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SANU

MLA

“SANU.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SANU. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “SANU,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SANU.

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