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Definition of Dicynodont
1. Noun. A kind of therapsid.
Definition of Dicynodont
1. n. One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.
Definition of Dicynodont
1. Noun. A member of the Dicynodontia, an extinct group of therapsids. ¹
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Definition of Dicynodont
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Medical Definition of Dicynodont
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicynodont
Literary usage of Dicynodont
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"The following communication was read :— " On the dicynodont Reptilia, with a
Description of ... They are referable to two genera of dicynodont Reptilia. ..."
2. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1901)
"I shall confine myself, in the present place, to the description of those remains
the dicynodont nature of which cannot be doubted. ..."
3. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1865)
"Hitherto no traces of dicynodont reptiles had been found, excepting in South
Africa, and this discovery of similar remains in these ludian beds was of ..."
4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1893)
"The dicynodont remains noticed by the present writer at the meeting of this
Association last year at ... Another dicynodont more nearly related to the ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1871)
"ED Cope exhibited the nearly perfect cranium of a dicynodont Reptile from the
Cape Colony, South Africa, which he regarded as different from those described ..."
6. Records by Albany Museum (Grahamstown, South Africa) (1906)
"The specimen consists of the remains of a small dicynodont reptile, which, when
complete, ... All the bones of the skeleton are typically dicynodont. ..."
7. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay by Asiatic Society of Bombay (1862)
"... discharged the functions of the cutting instrument, but whether it really did
so, or was the mandible of a dicynodont, I am not competent to determine. ..."
8. Mines and Mineral Statistics of New South Wales, and Notes on the Geological by New South Wales Dept. of Mines, William Branwhite Clark, Archibald Liversidge (1875)
"... and witk them Labyrinthodont and dicynodont reptiles. No Glossopteris here
either. " Then below these, with slight unconformity orcr the coal rocks, ..."
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