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单词 creodont
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creodontn.

/ˈkriːəʊdɒnt/
Etymology: < modern Latin Creodonta (E. D. Cope 1875, in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1875, 446), < Greek κρέας flesh + ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς tooth.
Palaeontology.
A member of the Creodonta, a sub-order of extinct carnivorous mammals, which lived during the Palæocene, Eocene, and Oligocene epochs. Also attributive or as adj.
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1891 W. H. Flower & R. Lydekker Introd. Study Mammals 607 The more typical Creodonts appear..to be..closely related to the true Carnivora.
1903 H. Johnston Brit. Mammals 115 No Creodont..has ever been discovered which possessed more than three true molars.
1903 H. Johnston Brit. Mammals 188 The Creodont Carnivores.
1968 A. S. Romer Procession of Life xv. 245 The Palaeocene and Eocene epochs..saw the rise of a variety of archaic flesh-eaters, often grouped (there were several families of them) as the creodonts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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