dinoceras

/ (daɪˈnɒsərəs) /

noun

another name for a uintathere

Word Origin for dinoceras

C19: New Latin, from Greek deinos fearful + keras horn

Words nearby dinoceras

dinner theater, dinner-dance, dinnertime, dinnerware, dino-, dinoceras, dinoflagellate, dinosaur, dinosaur national monument, dinosaurian, dinosaurs

Example sentences from the Web for dinoceras

  • These were the migrant herds of the Dinoceras, just arrived at their new pasturage.

    In the Morning of Time |Charles G. D. Roberts

  • The skull is singularly reminiscent of Dinoceras, with which this quite Artiodactyle genus has, of course, nothing to do.

    The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia |Frank Evers Beddard

  • The wounded Dinoceras drew away, to 39 die or recover as curious Nature might decree.

    In the Morning of Time |Charles G. D. Roberts

  • It is quite clear, then, that we cannot place the Dinoceras in any order of living mammals.

    Extinct Monsters |H. N. Hutchinson