Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any individual of the genus Titanotherium or member of the family Titanotheriidæ or superfamily Titanotheroidæ.
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- noun A member of the Titanotheriidae, a
family ofextinct mammals related tohorses andrhinoceroses .
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Examples
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"In the great quadruped known as titanothere," says Osborn, "rudiments of horns first arise independently at certain definite parts of the skull; they arise at first alike in both sexes, or asexually; then they become sexual, or chiefly characteristic of males; then they rapidly evolve in the males while being arrested in development in the females; finally, they become in some of the animals dominant characteristics to which all others bend."
Time and Change John Burroughs 1879
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Osborn thinks it probable that the huge beast called titanothere finally became extinct early in Tertiary times owing to the form of its teeth, which were of such a type that they could not change to meet a change in the flora upon which the creature fed.
Time and Change John Burroughs 1879
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The next summer, at Rattlesnake Buttes, Horrible Horace uncovered a striking set of titanothere bones, accompanied by complete skeletons of camels, mammoths and dire wolves.
Centennial Michener, James 1974
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The thorax, like the head of a titanothere, bears three pairs of horns -- a great irregular expanse of tumbled, rock-like skin and thorn, a foundation for three pairs of long legs, and sheltering somewhere in its heart a thread of ant-life; finally, two little pedicels lead to a rounded abdomen, smaller than the head.
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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The huge titanothere, and the small three-toed horse, both existed at what may roughly be called the same period of the world's history, back in the middle of the mammalian age.
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The huge titanothere, and the small three-toed horse, both existed at what may roughly be called the same period of the world's history, back in the middle of the mammalian age.
African and European Addresses Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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The titanothere is traceable back to a hornless animal the size of a sheep, and it ended in a horned quadruped nearly as large as an elephant.
Time and Change John Burroughs 1879
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Hammerhead titanothere - alien, but not alien enough?
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Hammerhead titanothere - alien, but not alien enough?
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Pandora is home to at least one mega-herbivore, the spectacular, elephant-sized Hammerhead titanothere [image above from here].
yarb commented on the word titanothere
For striking failures and mediocre failures alike will perish and will never be preserved for us to examine, except in the fossils of titanothere or dinosaur, of glyptodont or aberrant ant.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 219
December 17, 2008