Meaning Of The Word Creodont

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creodont in American English
any of a former suborder (Creodonta) of small, primitive, extinct carnivores with small brains
noun: any of a diverse group of extinct predatory mammals, from the Paleocene to Pleistocene epochs, that constituted the suborder Creodonta, of the order Carnivora, developing along evolutionary lines somewhat parallel to those of the ancestors of modern carni

creodont in British English
noun: any of a group of extinct Tertiary mammals some of which are thought to have been the ancestors of modern carnivores: order Carnivora

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