Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having fluted teeth; specifically, of or pertaining to the Glyptodontidæ.
- noun A glyptodon. Also
glyptodontine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) One of a family (
Glyptodontidæ ) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any extinct South American
edentate of the family Glyptodontidae
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Examples
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I will try to find the glyptodont-references you mentioned.
More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest Darren Naish 2006
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There is, however, strength data on glyptodont shells.
More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest Darren Naish 2006
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At the nearby site of La Conchita were found skeletal remains of the extinct mastadon, the glyptodont, a giant sloth, and the horse, dating back some 12,000-14,000 years.
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On a hunt for fossils in Mexico, Warren Stortroen, a former insurance-claims manager, led a paleontologist and fellow diggers to the remains of a giant glyptodont, a three-million-year-old ancestor of the armadillo that's the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
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Tail blow energy and carapace fractures in a large glyptodont (Mammalia, Xenarthra).
More on phorusrhacids: the biggest, the fastest, the mostest out-of-placest Darren Naish 2006
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At the nearby site of La Conchita were found skeletal remains of the extinct mastadon, the glyptodont, a giant sloth, and the horse, dating back some 12,000-14,000 years.
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At the nearby site of La Conchita were found skeletal remains of the extinct mastadon, the glyptodont, a giant sloth, and the horse, dating back some 12,000-14,000 years.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG Mr. Stortroen, who made the glyptodont find, went on his first expedition with Earthwatch Institute, a Maynard, Mass., nonprofit, six weeks after retiring in 1996.
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The answer: “Sure, right over here, right behind the glyptodont…” He was also there for his daughter-in-law, my wife Pam, doing things like cheerfully driving down to Los Lunas to pick up signs for her school board campaign.
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This makes me wonder what a purring glyptodont or pareiasaurid would sound like, but somehow I have the feeling that the authors just skimmed through a book on paleontology (or took a walk through a museum) and picked out a few strange-sounding names.
chained_bear commented on the word glyptodont
"He also wrote a revisionist take on the classic American song 'Home on the Range': 'I'd say give me a home where the mastodons roam, and the ground sloths and the glyptodonts play.' (Glyptodonts were giant creatures like armadillos that went extinct at the end of the Great Ice Age.)"
—Richard Stone, Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001), 183
September 22, 2008
yarb commented on the word glyptodont
Citation on titanothere. See also glyptodon.
December 17, 2008
MaryW commented on the word glyptodont
Thor Hanson, The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History (New York: Basic Books, 2015), endnote accompanying ch. 1, p. 10.
January 30, 2016