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Ailuroidea
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Arctoidea
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of the Carnivora, that includes the bears, weasels, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
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: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Bear
noun · 78% connection
Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
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: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Cacomixl
noun · 78% connection
A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and Califor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Carnivore
noun · 78% connection
One of the Carnivora.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Ceratosaurus
noun · 78% connection
A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the sku…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Chemung period
unknown · 78% connection
A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well dev…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Cord
noun · 78% connection
A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four fee…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
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: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Cynoidea
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of Carnivora, including the dogs, wolves, and foxes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Digitigrade
adjective · 78% connection
Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Ferae
n. pl. · 78% connection
A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Car…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Fissiped
noun · 78% connection
terrestrial carnivores having toes separated to the base: dogs, cats, bears, badgers, raccoons
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Fissipedia
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; -- opposed to Pinnipedia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Gastropoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. Th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
Genette
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of small Carnivora of the genus Genetta, allied to the civets, but having the scent glands less developed, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: subdivision, carnivora, plantigrade, feet, includes.
