A large piglike mammal of the Oligocene epoch with two bony knobs on its lower jaw.
Suborder Suina, order Artiodactyla
Example sentencesExamples
The entelodonts, however, also possessed unusually good lateral jaw mobility.
Meanwhile the omnivorous niches were filled by giant pig-like entelodonts like Archaeotherium (shoulder height 1 metre), which retained short legs and low-crowned teeth.
Among the creatures that walk the face of this new, cooler earth is the entelodont, a monstrous forerunner of the pig with massive shoulders and what must be the ugliest mug ever to have graced a living creature.
The Asian indricatheres and the American entelodonts both flourished then died out during this epoch.
Origin
Modern Latin, from Greek entelēs 'perfect' + odous, odont- 'tooth'.