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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

νότοσ

the south +

θηρίον

a wild animal.]

(Zool.)

An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.

Nototherium n

A taxonomic genus within the family Diprotodontidae – extinct marsupials with hypsodont molars, a relative of the larger Diprotodon and distantly related to modern wombats.