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dryolestids

dryolestids is the plural of dryolestid.

Meaning of dryolestid

Noun

dryolestid (plural dryolestids)

  1. Any of a group of extinct mammals of the order †Dryolestida.
    • A dog-sized dryolestid, Peligrotherium, the ‘lazy beast’, is known from the early Paleocene of Patagonia, while another, Necrolestes, the ‘grave-robber’, is from the same part of the world, but much later, in the Miocene.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 102

Questions about dryolestids

What is dryolestids the plural of?
Dryolestids is the plural of dryolestid.

Words near dryolestids in the dictionary

  1. drynx
  2. drynxes
  3. dryolestid
  4. dryolestidan
  5. dryolestidans
  6. dryolestids
  7. dryolestoid
  8. dryolestoids
  9. dryomorph
  10. dryomorphan
  11. dryomorphans

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