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Argali
noun · 78% connection
A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or O. argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central A…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Babirussa
noun · 78% connection
A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, / Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teet…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
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: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Camel
noun · 78% connection
A large ruminant used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens and for riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long tim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Dicynodont
noun · 78% connection
One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Dipteran
noun · 78% connection
insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Dromatherium
noun · 78% connection
A small extinct triassic mammal from North Carolina, the earliest yet found in America.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Elephant
noun · 78% connection
A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are know…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Francolin
noun · 78% connection
A spurred partidge of the genus Francolinus and allied genera, of Asia and Africa. The common species (F. vulgaris) was formerly commo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Glutton
noun · 78% connection
A carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Glyptodon
noun · 78% connection
An extinct South American quaternary mammal, allied to the armadillos. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated scales,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Hornbill
noun · 78% connection
Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical pa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Large
superl. · 78% connection
Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Leopard
noun · 78% connection
A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Lion
noun · 78% connection
A large carnivorous feline mammal (Felis leo), found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Mammoth
noun · 78% connection
any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
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: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
Megalonyx
noun · 78% connection
An extinct quaternary mammal, of great size, allied to the sloth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, extinct, proboscidean, mammal, miocene.
