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nimravids

nimravids is the plural of nimravid.

Meaning of nimravid

Noun

nimravid (plural nimravids)

  1. Any of the large extinct feliforms of the family Nimravidae, of the Middle to Late Miocene (40—7 million years ago).
    • The earliest nimravids, Dinictis and Hoplophoneus of western North America, were already saber-toothed, with large, serrated, and laterally compressed upper canine teeth and a protective bony flange on the mandible.2006, Kenneth D. Rose, The Beginning of the Age of Mammals, unnumbered page

Questions about nimravids

What is nimravids the plural of?
Nimravids is the plural of nimravid.

Words near nimravids in the dictionary

  1. Nimpkish
  2. NIMPLY
  3. nimps
  4. nimptopsical
  5. nimravid
  6. nimravids
  7. nimrod
  8. Nimrodian
  9. Nimrodic
  10. Nimrodical
  11. nimrods

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