borhyaenid

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noun

Any of the extinct marsupial-like mammals of the family Borhyaenidae.

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nounborhyaenid (plural borhyaenids)

plural borhyaenids

  1. biologyAny of the extinct marsupial-like mammals of the family Borhyaenidae.

    They eat the low vegetation cautiously and with eyes alert, constantly on the lookout for borhyaenids: pouched predators and relatives of marsupials with hyena-like crushing jaws and grooved, ever-growing canines.

    2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 63

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borhyaenoid
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