borhyaenid
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[edit]Noun
[edit]borhyaenid (plural borhyaenids)
- (zoology) Any of the extinct marsupial-like mammals of the family Borhyaenidae.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 63:
- They eat the low vegetation cautiously and with eyes alert, constantly on the lookout for borhyaenids: pouched predators and relatives of marsupials with hyena-like crushing jaws and grooved, ever-growing canines.