pyrotheren.

Brit.

/ˈpʌɪrə(ʊ)θɪə/, U.S.

/ˈpaɪroʊˌθɪ(ə)r/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: pyro- comb. form, -there comb. form.

Etymology: < pyro- comb. form + -there comb. form, after scientific Latin Pyrotheria, order name (1895 or earlier) < Pyrotherium, genus name ( F. Ameghino Rápidas diagnosis de mamif. fósiles nuevos (1888) 10), so called with reference to its discovery in sedimentary deposits of volcanic origin.

Palaeontology.

A mammal of the extinct order Pyrotheria, which comprised large ungulates resembling elephants which lived in South America during the early Tertiary.

ΚΠ

1910 H. F. Osborn Age of Mammals 561 Order Pyrotheria. Pyrotheres, Mastodon-like South American Ungulates.

1943 Jrnl. Mammalogy 24 308 The Taligrada..are a primitive group that may stand broadly ancestral to some of the later sub-Ungulate orders,..perhaps to Hyracoids, Arsinoitheres, Pyrotheres.

1974 B. J. Stahl Vertebr. Hist. ix. 449 The pyrotheres may have had a trunk-like snout.

2004 R. J. Huggett Fund. Biogeogr. (ed. 2) xiv. 298 The condylarthrans produced a spectacular array of endemic orders of hoofed mammals, all of which are now extinct—the condylarthra, litopterns,..pyrotheres, and xenungulates.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pyrothere
释义	pyrotheren. Brit. /ˈpʌɪrə(ʊ)θɪə/, U.S. /ˈpaɪroʊˌθɪ(ə)r/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: pyro- comb. form, -there comb. form. Etymology: < pyro- comb. form + -there comb. form, after scientific Latin Pyrotheria, order name (1895 or earlier) < Pyrotherium, genus name ( F. Ameghino Rápidas diagnosis de mamif. fósiles nuevos (1888) 10), so called with reference to its discovery in sedimentary deposits of volcanic origin. Palaeontology. A mammal of the extinct order Pyrotheria, which comprised large ungulates resembling elephants which lived in South America during the early Tertiary. ΚΠ 1910 H. F. Osborn Age of Mammals 561 Order Pyrotheria. Pyrotheres, Mastodon-like South American Ungulates. 1943 Jrnl. Mammalogy 24 308 The Taligrada..are a primitive group that may stand broadly ancestral to some of the later sub-Ungulate orders,..perhaps to Hyracoids, Arsinoitheres, Pyrotheres. 1974 B. J. Stahl Vertebr. Hist. ix. 449 The pyrotheres may have had a trunk-like snout. 2004 R. J. Huggett Fund. Biogeogr. (ed. 2) xiv. 298 The condylarthrans produced a spectacular array of endemic orders of hoofed mammals, all of which are now extinct—the condylarthra, litopterns,..pyrotheres, and xenungulates. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1910
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