di·pro·to·don 
(d
ī-pr
ōt
ə-d
ŏn
′)
n. A large extinct stocky quadrupedal marsupial of the genus Diprotodon that inhabited Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch.
[New Latin Diprōtodōn : Greek di-, two; see DI- + prōto-, foremost, first, at the front; see PROTO- + odōn, odont-, tooth (from its two large tusklike lower incisors); see dent- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]