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cynodonts

cynodonts is the plural of cynodont.

Meaning of cynodont

Noun

cynodont (plural cynodonts)

  1. Any of several small carnivorous synapsids in the clade Cynodontia, ancestral to mammals and extinct close relatives.
    • The Triassic immediately followed a devastating mass extinction, and the cynodonts diversified in its aftermath in much the same way mammals did in the Paleocene.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 160

Questions about cynodonts

What is cynodonts the plural of?
Cynodonts is the plural of cynodont.

Words near cynodonts in the dictionary

  1. cynodontian
  2. cynodontians
  3. cynodontid
  4. cynodontids
  5. cynodontin
  6. cynodonts
  7. cynoglossid
  8. cynoglossids
  9. cynognathid
  10. cynognathids
  11. cynolatry

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