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Meaning of cynodont | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Any of several small carnivorous synapsids in the clade Cynodontia, ancestral to mammals and extinct close relatives.

Equivalents

Italiano cinodonto

Русский цинодо́нт

Examples

“The Triassic immediately followed a devastating mass extinction, and the cynodonts diversified in its aftermath in much the same way mammals did in the Paleocene.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

cynodontian cynodontid cynodontin cynoglossid cynognathid cynolatry