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

[From New Latin Oreodōn, type genus : Greek oros, ore-, mountain + Greek -odōn, -odont-, -odont.]

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • I also found a Archaeotherium tusk and one oreodont skull, but it was pretty beat up.

    Archive 2008-06-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • I also found a Archaeotherium tusk and one oreodont skull, but it was pretty beat up.

    Badlands Trip Notes: Part 1 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • 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

  • "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

  • The fossil was from an oreodont, one of a number of stout, hooved, plant-eating animals now extinct.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • A skeleton of a sabre-toothed tiger hunting an oreodont, a herbivorous prey, is also on offer.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • 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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