sivathere
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of translingual Sivatherium.
Noun
[edit]sivathere (plural sivatheres)
- (paleontology) An extinct giraffid of the genus Sivatherium.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 103:
- The sivatheres became extinct about two million years ago, but other giraffes, including the ancestors of the living giraffe species and the okapi, thrived.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 28:
- Shins coated in mud, the sivathere strides out onto more solid ground, towards the shade to browse.