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notungulate

notungulate is the alternative form of notoungulate.

Meaning of notoungulate

Noun

notoungulate (plural notoungulates)

  1. Any of several extinct, hoofed, herbivorous mammals of the order †Notoungulata, from Cenozoic South America.
    • At its extreme, there are creatures whose teeth grow continuously, even as their gums recede with a lifetime of grit and grass, a strategy only known in woolly rhinos and notoungulates among larger animals.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 72

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Forms of notungulate

pluralnotungulates

Questions about notungulate

What is notungulate the alternative form of?
Notungulate is the alternative form of notoungulate.

Words near notungulate in the dictionary

  1. notturnos
  2. notula
  3. notulae
  4. notular
  5. notum
  6. notungulate
  7. notungulates
  8. Notus
  9. notwheat
  10. notwithstanding
  11. notwithstanding clause

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