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单词 baluchitherium
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baluchitheriumn.

/bəluːtʃɪˈθɪərɪəm/
Etymology: modern Latin, < Baluchistan + Greek θηρίον beast.
Palaeontology.
A gigantic extinct land mammal of which remains have been found in the upper Oligocene deposits of the Bugti hills of Baluchistan.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) > [noun] > with hoof in more than two parts > family Rhinocerotidae > extinct or fossil types
elasmotherium1879
rhinocerotid1895
baluchitherium1913
1913 C. Forster-Cooper in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 12 504 I learn that the generic name Thaumastotherium proposed..is preoccupied. The generic name Baluchitherium is therefore proposed as a substitute.
1925 Chambers's Jrnl. 217/2 It was a baluchitherium, the greatest of all varieties of rhinoceros. It stood thirteen feet at the shoulder, and its neck, relatively as long as a horse's, gave it an additional reach of four or five feet.
1966 C. A. W. Guggisberg S.O.S. Rhino ii. 26 With a length of twenty-eight feet and standing seventeen to eighteen feet at the shoulder, Baluchitherium equalled or exceeded the imperial mammoth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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