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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.


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Origin of amblypod1

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

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