Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An animal of the genus Orycteropus; an aardvark. See cut under
aardvark .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
oryctere (the aardvark,Orycteropus afer ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
oryctere .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek digger + foot.
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Examples
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Enjoy the totally crazy point and click adventure Gobliiins 4, follow the adventures of the orycterope that ran away, a depressive king who is missing his pet, and a deceitful great steward.
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