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单词 lophiodon
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lophiodonn.

/ləʊˈfʌɪədɒn/
Etymology: < Greek λόϕιον, diminutive of λόϕος crest + ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς tooth, after mastodon, etc.
Palaeontology.
A genus of fossil mammals of the Eocene period, the typical genus of the Lophiodontidæ; a fossil mammal of this genus.
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1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 221 Cuvier also mentions the remains of a species of lophiodon as occurring among the bones in the Upper Val d'Arno.
1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. ix. 82 The Lophiodon is..allied most nearly to the tapir and rhinoceros, and, in some respects, to the hippopotamus.
1864 R. Owen Lect. Power of God 50 To match the eocene lophiodon we fetch the tapir from South America.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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