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gomphotheres

gomphotheres is the plural of gomphothere.

Meaning of gomphothere

Noun

gomphothere (plural gomphotheres)

  1. Any of the extinct proboscideans of the family Gomphotheriidae, that lived in North America and Eurasia during the Miocene and Pliocene (12—1.6 million years ago), and latterly also in South America (around 3 million to 9100 years ago).
    • The main lineage, the bunodont gomphotheres (called bunomastodonts by some authors), can be traced from Phiomia (from the Oligocene of North Africa) to Gomphotherium (a widespread Miocene genus), Tetralophodon (from the Old World and North America), and Stegomastodon (from the late Tertiary and...1980, Björn Kurtén, Elaine Anderson, Pleistocene Mammals of North America, page 346

Questions about gomphotheres

What is gomphotheres the plural of?
Gomphotheres is the plural of gomphothere.

Words near gomphotheres in the dictionary

  1. gomphoses
  2. gomphoside
  3. gomphosis
  4. gomphoteriid
  5. gomphothere
  6. gomphotheres
  7. gomphotherid
  8. gomphotherids
  9. gomphotheriid
  10. gomphotheriids
  11. gomphotin

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