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词汇 taeniodont
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Definition of taeniodont in English:

taeniodont

noun ˈtiːnɪə(ʊ)dɒnt
  • A primitive fossil herbivorous mammal from the Palaeocene and Eocene of North America, with deep powerful jaws and short stout limbs.

    纽齿兽

    Suborder Taeniodonta, order Cimolesta

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At least some members of the following groups developed hypsodont dentitions during the Late Eocene: taeniodonts, leporids, castorids, eomyids, rhinocerotids, hypertragulids, oromerycids, and ‘oreodonts’.
    • It is a stylinodontine taeniodont which was discovered by two people who had just stopped on the side of the road.
    • The teeth of a tingamarroid are quite strange, with large, flattened incisors, totally absent canines, and a set of deep-rooted, ever-growing molars most similar to those of the extinct taeniodonts.
    • In their preferred upland habitat, taeniodonts could have been much more common than the fossil record reflects.
    • Besides viverravids, the collection includes oxyclaenids, arctocyonids, triisodontids, pantolestids, taeniodonts, phenacodontids, mioclaenids, pentacodontids, periptychids, proprimates, and a multituberculate.

Origin

1930s: from modern Latin Taeniodontia (order name), from Greek tainia 'band, ribbon' + odous, odont- 'tooth'.

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