Definition of Creodonts

1. Noun. (plural of creodont) ¹

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Definition of Creodonts

1. creodont [n] - See also: creodont

Lexicographical Neighbors of Creodonts

crenelles
crenelling
crenels
crenic acid
crenocyte
crenocytosis
crenotherapy
crenshaw
crenshaws
crenulate
crenulated
crenulation
crenulations
creo
creodont
creodonts (current term)
creola bodies
creole
creole-fish
creoles
creolian
creolians
creolin
creolins
creolise
creolised
creolises
creolising
creolist
creolistics

Literary usage of Creodonts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
"The crown exhibits the remains of three distinct cusps corresponding in every way to those of the less specialized sectorial of many of the creodonts. ..."

2. The Britannica Year Book by Hugh Chisholm (1913)
"These would be ordinally related with the contemporary ancestors of the creodonts, but would be distinguished chiefly by smaller size and less robust ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"The early creodonts appear to represent most nearly the central stock from which most, ... creodonts were the dominant carnívora of the Eocene Epoch, ..."

4. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"The creodonts have been divided into at least six distinct families, of which but one ... The creodonts foreshadow the true carnivores in a number of ways, ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"The creodonts fall quite naturally into two sections, one with more or less blunt ... Xo existing forms appear to have been derived from the creodonts with ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
"The crown exhibits the remains of three distinct cusps corresponding in every way to those of the less specialized sectorial of many of the creodonts. ..."

7. The Britannica Year Book by Hugh Chisholm (1913)
"These would be ordinally related with the contemporary ancestors of the creodonts, but would be distinguished chiefly by smaller size and less robust ..."

8. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1903)
"The early creodonts appear to represent most nearly the central stock from which most, ... creodonts were the dominant carnívora of the Eocene Epoch, ..."

9. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"The creodonts have been divided into at least six distinct families, of which but one ... The creodonts foreshadow the true carnivores in a number of ways, ..."

10. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"The creodonts fall quite naturally into two sections, one with more or less blunt ... Xo existing forms appear to have been derived from the creodonts with ..."

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