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单词 palaeothere
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palaeotherepaleotheren.

Brit. /ˈpalɪə(ʊ)θɪə/, /ˈpeɪlɪə(ʊ)θɪə/, U.S. /ˈpeɪlioʊˌθɪ(ə)r/
Forms: see palaeo- comb. form and -there comb. form.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Palaeotherium.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Palaeotherium palaeotherium n. with omission of the ending: see -there comb. form. Compare earlier palaeotherium n.
Palaeontology.
An ungulate mammal of an extinct group of perissodactyls, including the genus Palaeotherium, which lived in Eocene and Oligocene times.
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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).
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