Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various extinct carnivorous mammals of the order Creodonta of the Tertiary Era.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Creodonta.
- noun One of the Creodonta.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of the extinct
Creodonta order of mammals that lived from thePaleocene to thePliocene epoch.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Apterodon intermedius, sp. nov., a new European creodont mammal from MP22 of Epenheim (Germany).
Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II) Darren Naish 2007
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We think it is maybe a bear dog Daphoenodon or a creodont.
Badlands Trip Notes: Part 3 ReBecca Foster 2008
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We think it is maybe a bear dog Daphoenodon or a creodont.
Archive 2008-06-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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After I got it prep'ed I am now leaning toward creodont see below.
Badlands Trip Notes: Part 3 ReBecca Foster 2008
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After I got it prep'ed I am now leaning toward creodont see below.
Archive 2008-06-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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The well-known plantigrade tread of bears is a primitive characteristic which has survived from their creodont ancestry.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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This order, which includes lemurs, monkeys, apes, and man, seems to have sprung from a creodont or insectivorous ancestry in the lower Eocene.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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According to the Wikipedia caption, the illustration shows the creodont
Cryptomundo 2009
sionnach commented on the word creodont
a primitive, small-brained animal
January 1, 2008