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Alabama period
unknown · 78% connection
A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Amblypoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Analogue
noun · 78% connection
A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Anisodactyls
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Badger
noun · 78% connection
A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
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, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Calf
noun · 78% connection
The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Cenozoic
adjective · 78% connection
Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Diatryma
noun · 78% connection
An extinct eocene bird from New Mexico, larger than the ostrich.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Dinoceras
noun · 78% connection
A genus of large extinct Eocene mammals from Wyoming; -- called also Uintatherium. See Illustration in Appendix.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Eocene
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Flysch
noun · 78% connection
A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene T…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Hipparion
noun · 78% connection
An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Imparidigitate
adjective · 78% connection
Having an odd number of fingers or toes, either one, three, or five, as in the horse, tapir, rhinoceros, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Kuda
noun · 78% connection
The East Indian tapir. See Tapir.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Machairodus
noun · 78% connection
A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Marsupialia
n. pl. · 78% connection
A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.
Mastodon
noun · 78% connection
An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, extinct, mammals, eocene, tertiary.