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from The Century Dictionary.
- One of the primary groups of the order Cetacea, entirely extinct, consisting of the genera Zeuglodon, Squalodon, and other large cetaceans of the Tertiary epoch, remarkable as furnishing connecting-links between the Cetacea and the pinniped aquatic Carnivora.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of extinct carnivorous whales. Their teeth had compressed and serrated crowns. It includes Squalodon and allied genera.
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