dinotherium
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prettygoodworddinotherium or deinotherium or dinothere (deye-nuh-THEER-ee-uhm) - n., a large extinct relative of the elephant with tusks that curved downward from the lower jaw.
Lived from the Middle Miocene to the Early Pleistocene, and it rivaled the imperial mammoth in size. Coined in 1826 from Neo-Latin forms dino-, terrifying + -there, wild animal, from Greek roots deinós, fright + thēríon, beast of prey. Even though, yes, these were herbivorous.
---L.
Lived from the Middle Miocene to the Early Pleistocene, and it rivaled the imperial mammoth in size. Coined in 1826 from Neo-Latin forms dino-, terrifying + -there, wild animal, from Greek roots deinós, fright + thēríon, beast of prey. Even though, yes, these were herbivorous.
---L.
