Meanings
nounhemicyonine (plural hemicyonines)
plural hemicyonines
- A member of the extinct subfamily Hemicyoninae.
The dog-bears (hemicyonines) looked like bulky, short-tailed dogs, but were in fact related to bears, and if this is not confusing enough, there was also a group of bear-dogs (amphycyonids).
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 87
adjectivehemicyonine (not comparable)
- not comparableOf or relating to the extinct subfamily Hemicyoninae.
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