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Noun edit

SANU (plural SANUs)

  1. Any of a group of South American native ungulates, extinct ungulate-like mammals sharing uncertain affinities.
    • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 63:
      There are SANU equivalents for almost every group of hoofed mammal from the rest of the world [] .
    • 2023, María Teresa Dozo, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Thomas E. Macrini, Stig Walsh, editors, Paleoneurology of Amniotes, page 812:
      Radinsky (1981) carried out studies on the brain of litopterns in the context of brain evolution in extinct SANUs.