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amphicyonids

amphicyonids is the plural of amphicyonid.

Meaning of amphicyonid

Noun

amphicyonid (plural amphicyonids)

  1. Any member of the family †Amphicyonidae of extinct carnivorans; a beardog.
    • Although now extinct, for over 30 million years amphicyonids predated their way around the Northern continents and Africa, successfully exploiting niches from more slender, wolf-like runners, to big stocky brutes that put the “bear” in “bear-dog”.2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian

Questions about amphicyonids

What is amphicyonids the plural of?
Amphicyonids is the plural of amphicyonid.

Words near amphicyonids in the dictionary

  1. amphictyonic
  2. amphictyonies
  3. amphictyons
  4. amphictyony
  5. amphicyonid
  6. amphicyonids
  7. amphid
  8. amphid salt
  9. amphid salts
  10. amphidal
  11. Amphidamas

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