amphicyonid
English
Noun
amphicyonid (plural amphicyonids)
- (zoology) A member of the extinct Amphicyonidae family of carnivorans; a bear dog.
- 2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian:
- Although now extinct, for over 30 million years amphicyonids predated their way around the Northern continents and Africa, successfully exploiting niches from more slender, wolf-like runners, to big stocky brutes that put the “bear” in “bear-dog”.
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