Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A typical genus of the family Lophiodontidæ, from the Middle or Upper Eocene, differing from most of the family in having only 40 teeth.
  • noun [lowercase] A member of this genus.

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Examples

  • Farther on, the pachydermatous lophiodon (crested toothed), a gigantic tapir, hides behind the rocks to dispute its prey with the anoplotherium

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • Looming no further back in the geological records than the Tertiary Period, the Oregon of that time looks altogether strange in the few suggestive glimpses we may get of it -- forests in which palm trees wave their royal crowns, and strange animals roaming beneath them or about the reedy margins of lakes, the oreodon, the lophiodon, and several extinct species of the horse, the camel, and other animals.

    Steep Trails John Muir 1876

  • Farther on, the pachydermatous lophiodon (crested toothed), a gigantic tapir, hides behind the rocks to dispute its prey with the anoplotherium (unarmed beast), a strange creature, which seemed a compound of horse, rhinoceros, camel, and hippopotamus.

    A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866

  • A considerable number are pachydermata, {127} of a character approximating to the South American tapir: the names, palaeotherium, anthracotherium, anoplotherium, lophiodon, &c., have been applied to them with a consideration of more or less conspicuous peculiarities; but a description of the first may give some general idea of the whole.

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

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  • Related to tapirs.

    September 5, 2008