Dicynodon
noun
Di·cyn·o·don
(ˈ)dī¦sinəˌdän,
-¦sīn-
: a genus of heavily built small to moderately large Permian reptiles (order Therapsida) that were presumably herbivorous and semiaquatic or marsh-dwelling forms and that had the teeth reduced to a pair of large canines in the male only and the jaws covered by a horny beak
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from di- + cyn- + -odon