amphicyonid

English

Noun

amphicyonid (plural amphicyonids)

1. (zoology) A member of the extinct Amphicyonidae family of carnivorans; a beardog.
   • 2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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”.

Translations

member of extinct family of carnivorans

• Finnish: koirakarhu