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Etymology
[edit]Wikispecies From scientific Latin Deinotherium, Dinotherium (genus names), from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “fearful, terrible”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “wild beast”).
Noun
[edit]deinothere (plural deinotheres)
- (paleontology) Any of the genus †Deinotherium of large, extinct proboscidean mammals, a relative of modern elephants. [from 19th c.]
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 105:
- Over the Miocene the European deinotheres became enormous, some reaching weights of 15 tonnes—making them among the largest land mammals ever to have existed.