zygomaturine

English

Noun

zygomaturine (plural zygomaturines)

1. Any extinct marsupial of the subfamily Zygomaturinae.
   • 2000, Michael Archer, Australia's Lost World: Prehistoric Animals of Riversleigh, page 111:

     In turn, there are two subfamilies of the diprotodontids: the zygomaturines, whose members have multi-cusped last upper premolars; and the diprotodontines, whose members have much simpler premolars.