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toxodons

toxodons is the plural of toxodon.

Meaning of toxodon

Noun

toxodon (plural toxodons)

  1. A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.
    • "Finally, I will assuredly give some account of the toxodon, the giant ten-foot guinea pig, with projecting chisel teeth, which we killed as it drank in the grey of the morning by the side of the lake."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘Our Eyes have seen Great Wonders’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 277

Questions about toxodons

What is toxodons the plural of?
Toxodons is the plural of toxodon.

Words near toxodons in the dictionary

  1. toxochelyids
  2. toxocone
  3. toxocones
  4. toxoconic
  5. toxodon
  6. toxodons
  7. toxodont
  8. toxodontian
  9. toxodontians
  10. toxodontid
  11. toxodontids

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