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mesonychids

mesonychids is the plural of mesonychid.

Meaning of mesonychid

Noun

mesonychid (plural mesonychids)

  1. An extinct carnivore of the order †Mesonychia.
    • The ancestors of modern cetaceans were probably large land creatures called mesonychids [...] that lived in the Paleocene epoch.1971 Dec, National Geographic, page 884

Questions about mesonychids

What is mesonychids the plural of?
Mesonychids is the plural of mesonychid.

Words near mesonychids in the dictionary

  1. mesonoxian
  2. mesons
  3. mesonychian
  4. mesonychians
  5. mesonychid
  6. mesonychids
  7. mesopallia
  8. mesopallial
  9. mesopallium
  10. mesoparasite
  11. mesoparasites

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