单词 | notoungulate |
释义 | notoungulaten.adj. Palaeontology. A. n. A member of the extinct order Notoungulata of herbivorous hoofed mammals, widely distributed in South America during the early to mid Tertiary. ΚΠ 1914 F. B. Loomis Deseado Formation Patagonia iv. 28 The general arrangement of the basi-cranial foramena indicate..that these notoungulates have all risen from the same stock. 1966 A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleontol. (ed. 3) xxii. 256/2 With two exceptions, notoungulates are unknown beyond the boundaries of South America. 1980 S. J. Gould Panda's Thumb (1982) xxviii. 290 Think how our zoos would have been enriched with a liberal sprinkling of notoungulates. 1990 M. J. Benton Vertebr. Palaeontol. ix. 256 Some notoungulates were beaver-like or rabbit-like, while others were as large as bears. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the order Notoungulata. ΚΠ 1916 Science 21 Jan. 109/1 The pattern of the premolar and molar teeth is so characteristically like the Notoungulate type and so unlike any other that it is regarded as reasonably certain. 1933 A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleontol. xvi. 315 The three notoungulate groups all appear to have been fairly closely related. 1994 Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 107 261/2 The small notoungulate genus Plesiotypotherium was exceedingly common at most Altiplano sites. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1914 |
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