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单词 diprotodon
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Example sentences from the Web for diprotodon

  • The hind-foot of the Diprotodon could not be more unlike that of a Kangaroo than it actually is.

    The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia|Frank Evers Beddard
  • Diprotodon, a gigantic fossil marsupial from Pleistocene beds in Australia, allied to the kangaroos.

    The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various
  • Even the marsupials in Australia produced a species (Diprotodon) as large as a rhinoceros with a skull three feet long.

    The Origin of Man and of his Superstitions|Carveth Read

diprotodon

/ (daɪˈprəʊtəʊˌdɒn) /

noun

a large extinct marsupial of the Australian genus Diprotodon

Word Origin for diprotodon

C19: from Greek from di- 1 + proto- + -odont, from its two prominent lower incisors

Words nearby diprotodon

dipper, dippy, dipropellant, dipropyltryptamine, diprotic, diprotodon, diprotodont, dipsacaceous, dipsesis, dipshit, dip-slip fault
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