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Alunogen
noun · 78% connection
A white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feath…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Baptistry
noun · 78% connection
In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Bos
noun · 78% connection
A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Brontotherium
noun · 78% connection
A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Cattle
n. pl. · 78% connection
Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Concubine
noun · 78% connection
A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were H…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Cordelier
noun · 78% connection
A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Coryphodon
noun · 78% connection
A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Dinosauria
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike chara…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Enchodus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Eurypteroidea
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extinct order of Merostomata, of which the genus Eurypterus is the type. They are found only in Paleozoic rocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Extinct
adjective · 78% connection
Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Galilee
noun · 78% connection
A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Gnome
noun · 78% connection
An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Gypseous
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling or containing gypsum; partaking of the qualities of gypsum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Handsel
noun · 78% connection
A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and r…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Herbivora
n. pl. · 78% connection
An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later wr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
Hesperornis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, quadrupeds, order, ungulata.
