dinotherium
noun
any of the large, extinct mammals of genus Deinotherium, having a proboscis and tusks like those of the elephant, but with the tusks curving downward from the jaw.
dinotheria
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pluralof dinotherium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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It was chiefly in its middle and latter, or Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene ages, that the myriads of its huger giants,—its dinotheria, mastodons, and mammoths,—cumbered the soil.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
The city of New York was sure of its site; but huge dinotheria wallowed in the mire where now stand the palaces of Paris, London, and Vienna.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
