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multituberculate in American English (ˌmʌltituˈbɜːrkjəlɪt, -ˌleit, -tju-, ˌmʌltai-) noun1. a rodentlike mammal of the extinct order Multituberculata, which lived from the late Jurassic Period to the Oligocene Epoch, reaching the size of a woodchuck and having molars with two or three rows of simple pointed cusps adjective2. of or pertaining to the multituberculates 3. having teeth with many simple, pointed cusps Word origin [‹ NL Multituberculata (1884); see multi-, tuberculate, -ata1] |