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SANU

SANU noun: any of a group of South American native ungulates, extinct ungulate-like mammals sharing uncertain affinities.

Noun

SANU (plural SANUs)

  1. Any of a group of South American native ungulates, extinct ungulate-like mammals sharing uncertain affinities.
    • There are SANU equivalents for almost every group of hoofed mammal from the rest of the world […].2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 63
    • Radinsky (1981) carried out studies on the brain of litopterns in the context of brain evolution in extinct SANUs.2023, María Teresa Dozo, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Thomas E. Macrini, Stig Walsh, editors, Paleoneurology of Amniotes, page 812

Forms of SANU

pluralSANUs

Questions about SANU

What does SANU mean?
SANU means any of a group of South American native ungulates, extinct ungulate-like mammals sharing uncertain affinities.
What part of speech is SANU?
SANU is a noun.
What is the plural of SANU?
The plural of SANU is SANUs.

Words near SANU in the dictionary

  1. Santy
  2. Santy Claus
  3. santyl
  4. Santys
  5. Santé
  6. SANU
  7. sanukite
  8. sanukites
  9. sanukitoid
  10. sanukitoids
  11. Sanur

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