cynodont

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Definition of cynodont

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noun

  1. Any of several small carnivorous synapsids in the clade Cynodontia, ancestral to mammals and extinct close relatives.
    “The Triassic immediately followed a devastating mass extinction, and the cynodonts diversified in its aftermath in much the same way mammals did in the Paleocene.”

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Etymology

From cyno- + -odont, from Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”) and ὀδόντος (odóntos), genitive singular of ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth, tusk”).

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