Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
dinotherium , 2.
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Examples
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In the heat of noon, lions would shelter beneath it, and sometimes elephants and dinotheria would rub their thick hides against the landing gear.
Tin 2010
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Once Moon-Watcher heard the unmistakable sound of a bush, being uprooted; the elephants and dinotheria did this often enough, but otherwise they moved as silently as the cats.
2001 A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C. 1968
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The city of New York was sure of its site; but huge dinotheria wallowed in the mire where now stand the palaces of Paris,
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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It was chiefly in its middle and latter, or Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene ages, that the myriads of its huger giants, -- its dinotheria, mastodons, and mammoths, -- cumbered the soil.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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