mesonychid

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noun

An extinct carnivore of the order †Mesonychia.

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Meanings

nounmesonychid (plural mesonychids)

plural mesonychids

  1. biologyAn extinct carnivore of the order †Mesonychia.

    The ancestors of modern cetaceans were probably large land creatures called mesonychids [...] that lived in the Paleocene epoch.

    1971 Dec, National Geographic, page 884
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