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zeuglodon
Part of speech: NounA fossil mammal of the whale kind of great size.
Usage examples "zeuglodon":- Zeuglodon cetoides, Eocene, United States. - "The Student's Elements of Geology", Sir Charles Lyell.
- Still, if some of these creatures had been spared, they might well have passed for sea- serpents, even though Zeuglodon, the one most like a serpent in form, was the one most remotely related to snakes. - "Animals of the Past", Frederic A. Lucas.
- The extinct Zeuglodon, however, presents us with an intercalary form between the type of the Seals and that of the Whales. - "Critiques and Addresses", Thomas Henry Huxley.