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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mul•ti•tu•ber•cu•late (mul′tē tŏŏ bûr′kyə lit, -lāt′, -tyŏŏ-, mul′tī-),USA pronunciation n. - Paleontologya 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.
adj. - Paleontologyof or pertaining to the multituberculates.
- Paleontologyhaving teeth with many simple, pointed cusps.
- Neo-Latin Multituberculata (1884); see multi-, tuberculate, -ata1
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