Meanings
nounamphicyonid (plural amphicyonids)
plural amphicyonids
- biologyAny member of the family †Amphicyonidae of extinct carnivorans; a beardog.
Although now extinct, for over 30 million years amphicyonids predated their way around the Northern continents and Africa, successfully exploiting niches from more slender, wolf-like runners, to big stocky brutes that put the “bear” in “bear-dog”.
2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian
Translations
Finnish koirakarhu
- koirakarhumember of extinct family of carnivorans
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