Definitions for creodonts

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creodonts cre·o·dont

Spelling: [kree-uh-dont]

IPA: /ˈkri əˌdɒnt/

Creodonts is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 538 anagrams from letters in creodonts (cdenoorst).

Definitions for creodonts

noun

1. 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 carnivores and typically having a stocky, doglike body and a long, low skull.

Origin of creodonts

New Latin Creodonta (1875) name of the group, equivalent to cre- (Greek kréas flesh) + -odont- -odont + -a neuter plural ending

Examples for creodonts

The well-known plantigrade tread of bears is a primitive characteristic which has survived from their creodont ancestry.

There are, however, other points of likeness which seem rather to point to a creodont origin.

The group is believed to be derived from a creodont allied to the Eocene Palaeonictis (see creodonta).