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noun
A member of the infraorder Dicynodontia of dominant herbivores of the Late Permian, the most successful group of non-mammalian synapsids.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a kind of therapsid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: therapsid, protomammal
History
From di- + cyno- + -odont. From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “twice”) + κύων (kúōn, “dog”) + ὀδόντος (odóntos, “tooth”).
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