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GOMPHOTHERE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gomphothere" is a kind of...):
elephant (five-toed pachyderm)
Holonyms ("gomphothere" is a member of...):
genus Gomphotherium; Gomphotherium (type genus of the Gomphotheriidae)