entelodont
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Noun
[edit]entelodont (plural entelodonts)
- Any of several extinct pig-like omnivores, of the family Entelodontidae, from the Eocene and Miocene epochs.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 85:
- [T]he Oligocene's signature species were an unsavoury group of pigs and pig-like creatures, foremost among which were the entelodonts, more popularly known as hell pigs, or terminator pigs.