Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various extinct sheep-sized ruminant artiodactyls that were widespread during the Eocene through the Pliocene Epochs in North America. They are usually placed in the group Oreodontoidea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Oreodontidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Paleon.) Resembling, or allied to, the genus Oreodon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun paleontology A member of the
genus Oreodon.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The student who had found the two oreodont skulls the first day seemed to have a good eye.
Badlands Trip Notes: Part 3 ReBecca Foster 2008
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About 10 minutes before it was time to round the group up and head out I looked down on the side of a gully and found a beautiful little oreodont skull!
Badlands Trip Notes: Part 2 ReBecca Foster 2008
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About 10 minutes before it was time to round the group up and head out I looked down on the side of a gully and found a beautiful little oreodont skull!
Archive 2008-06-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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I also found a Archaeotherium tusk and one oreodont skull, but it was pretty beat up.
Archive 2008-06-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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I also found a Archaeotherium tusk and one oreodont skull, but it was pretty beat up.
Badlands Trip Notes: Part 1 ReBecca Foster 2008
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The student who had found the two oreodont skulls the first day seemed to have a good eye.
Archive 2008-06-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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"That night my nephew went to the Numen, the Proud One, and slit the throat of a young oreodont, saying -"
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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The fossil was from an oreodont, one of a number of stout, hooved, plant-eating animals now extinct.
The Seattle Times 2011
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A skeleton of a sabre-toothed tiger hunting an oreodont, a herbivorous prey, is also on offer.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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A skeleton of a sabre-toothed tiger hunting an oreodont, a herbivorous prey, is also on offer.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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