giant beaver

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giant beaver (plural giant beavers)

  1. Either of two genera of extinct castorid rodents, Castoroides of North America or Trogontherium of Eurasia.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 152:
      Early ice-age Europe was also home to giant beavers of the genus Trogontherium.