单词 | palaeothere |
释义 | palaeotherepaleotheren. Palaeontology. An ungulate mammal of an extinct group of perissodactyls, including the genus Palaeotherium, which lived in Eocene and Oligocene times. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) > [noun] > extinct or fossil types > palaeothere palaeothere1831 palaeotherioid1848 palaeotheriodont1874 palaeotheroid1874 1831 W. Whewell Let. 22 Feb. in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 114 I will stand by you in cutting off the tails of the anoplotheres and paleotheres. 1869 J. S. Blackie Musa Burschicosa 23 Palæothere, very singular creature! A horse or a tapir, or both can you say? 1927 Sci. Monthly Apr. 343/2 The paleotheres, numerous in the Eocene of Europe, were..unrepresented [in Mongolia]. 1971 Nature 10 Dec. 366/2 We can see herds of palaeotheres visiting their selected water-holes. 1992 M. Schaffer-Fehre tr. S. Schaal & W. Ziegler Messel 302 He obtained his doctorate in natural sciences, working on palaeotheres, early relatives of the horses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831 |
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