dinoceras
/ (daɪˈnɒsərəs) /
noun
another name for a uintathere
Origin of dinoceras
1C19: New Latin, from Greek deinos fearful + keras horn
Words Nearby dinoceras
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How to use dinoceras in a sentence
The black herds of the dinoceras stopped feeding all at once, and raised their vicious heads and stared.
In the Morning of Time | Charles G. D. RobertsThe wounded dinoceras drew away, to 39 die or recover as curious Nature might decree.
In the Morning of Time | Charles G. D. RobertsIt is quite clear, then, that we cannot place the dinoceras in any order of living mammals.
Extinct Monsters | H. N. HutchinsonThe skull is singularly reminiscent of dinoceras, with which this quite Artiodactyle genus has, of course, nothing to do.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia | Frank Evers BeddardThese were the migrant herds of the dinoceras, just arrived at their new pasturage.
In the Morning of Time | Charles G. D. Roberts
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