Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus Of Sivatheriidæ.
- noun An animal of this genus; a sivathere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A genus of very large extinct ruminants found in the Tertiary formation of India. The snout was prolonged in the form of a proboscis. The male had four horns, the posterior pair being large and branched. It was allied to the antelopes, but very much larger than any exsisting species.
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Examples
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Heavy broad-leaf litter covered the ground, making a carpet for deer and elk, broad-shouldered sivatherium, and droopy-horned pelorovis.
A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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They saw small herds of moose and sivatherium, camelops and wapiti.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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They saw small herds of moose and sivatherium, camelops and wapiti.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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CAUTLEY, however, have shown that anatomical proofs are all against this inference, but if any doubt remained it must yield to the fact, that among the _fauna_ of the Sewalik hills the sivatherium and the giraffe were contemporaries.
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According to him the sivatherium -- a fossil animal that had been found in the Himalaya mountains -- was the primeval type that time had fined down into the giraffe from long-continued feeding on the branches of trees.
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The minor range of the Himalaya, the Sewalik hills, contain, besides numerous mastodons, the sivatherium and the gigantic land-tortoise
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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Now, it is a singular fact that an almost similar structure to the abnormal one of the niata breed characterises the great extinct ruminant of India -- the sivatherium.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
she commented on the word sivatherium
Also sivathere; a fossil ruminant of great size, with four horns, discovered in the Siwalik or Sub-Himalayan hills in Northern India, believed to've resembled an immense Gnu or Antelope. Latin, from Siva/Shiva (the Hindu god) + Greek for "wild beast."
August 8, 2008