amphicyonid

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Noun

amphicyonid (plural amphicyonids)

  1. (zoology) Any of the family †Amphicyonidae of extinct carnivorans; a beardog.
    • 2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Although now extinct, for over 30 million years amphicyonids predated their way around the Northern continents and Africa, successfully exploiting niches from more slender, wolf-like runners, to big stocky brutes that put the “bear” in “bear-dog”.

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