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arsinoïtherium Palæont.|ˌɑːsɪnəʊɪˈθɪəriːəm|
[mod.L., f. Gr. ἀρσινόη, an ancient Egyptian city of the Fayum, so named, after his second wife Arsinoë II, by Ptolemy II Philadelphus (308–246 b.c.), who developed it as the metropolis of that region + θηρίον, dim. of θήρ wild beast: cf. therio-.]
An animal of an extinct genus of mammals, as large as the rhinoceros, with two large and two small horns.
1902H. J. L. Beadnell Prel. Note Arsinoitherium Zitteli 3 Discovery of Eocene mammalian and reptilian remains made last year by the Geological Survey of Egypt... The most important of these is a large, heavily built, ungulate, about the size of a rhinoceros, and for which the writer proposes the generic name Arsinoitherium, from Queen Arsinoe, after whom the Fayum was called in Ptolemic times. 1904Daily Chron. 4 Jan. 9/1 The four-horned arsinöitherium. 1930Discovery Nov. 386/2 The arsinoitherium, a huge beast the size of a rhinoceros, was among the most fantastic mammals which have ever existed. |