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noun
Any of several small carnivorous synapsids in the clade Cynodontia, ancestral to mammals and extinct close relatives.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
small carnivorous reptiles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: therapsid, protomammal
History
From cyno- + -odont, from Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”) and ὀδόντος (odóntos), genitive singular of ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth, tusk”).
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