amblypod

[ am-bluh-pod ]

noun
  1. one of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Pantodonta, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a massive body and short legs.

Origin of amblypod

1
<New Latin Amblypoda<Greek amblý(s) blunt + -poda-poda

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