mesonychid
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[edit]Noun
[edit]mesonychid (plural mesonychids)
- (biology) An extinct carnivore of the order †Mesonychia.
- 1971 Dec, National Geographic, page 884:
- The ancestors of modern cetaceans were probably large land creatures called mesonychids [...] that lived in the Paleocene epoch.