di·pro·to·don (dī-prōtə-dŏn′)
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Tweet n. A large extinct stocky quadrupedal marsupial of the genus Diprotodon that inhabited Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch. [New Latin Diprōtodōn : Greek di-, two; see DI- + prōto-, foremost, first, at the front; see PROTO- + odōn, odont-, tooth (from its two large tusklike lower incisors); see dent- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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