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zhelestid

zhelestid noun: an extinct eutherian mammal of the family Zhelestidae.

Noun

zhelestid (plural zhelestids)

  1. An extinct eutherian mammal of the family Zhelestidae.
    • The dinosaurs arriving from Asia proved the hardiest immigrants, though zhelestids (primitive insect-eating mammals that resembled elephant shrews) also somehow made it.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 31

Forms of zhelestid

pluralzhelestids

Questions about zhelestid

What does zhelestid mean?
Zhelestid means an extinct eutherian mammal of the family Zhelestidae.
What part of speech is zhelestid?
Zhelestid is a noun.
What is the plural of zhelestid?
The plural of zhelestid is zhelestids.

Words near zhelestid in the dictionary

  1. zhees
  2. Zhegalkin polynomial
  3. Zhegalkin polynomials
  4. Zhejiang
  5. Zhejiangese
  6. zhelestid
  7. zhelestids
  8. Zheleznogorsk
  9. zhemchuzhnikovite
  10. Zhemgang
  11. zhen

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