glyptodon
See also: Glyptodon
English edit
Etymology edit
From the New Latin genus name Glyptodon (from Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós, “sculptured”) + ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς (odont-, odoús, “tooth”), 'grooved or carved tooth')
Noun edit
glyptodon (plural glyptodons)
- (paleontology) A member of the genus Glyptodon of extinct giant armadillos.
- 1851 June 11, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 1, column 2:
- The more striking phenomena first and most strongly impress the mind, which contrasts for example, the great Cave-Bears of Europe with the actual Brown Bear, the Megatheriods of South America with the small existing sloths, and the gigantic Glyptodons with the Armadillos.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter IV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 43:
- Statues of beasts stood with their backs to the four walls of the court, eyes turned to watch the canted dial: hulking barylambdas; arctothers, the monarchs of bears; glyptodons; smilodons with fangs like glaives.
- (obsolete) Synonym of glyptodontid
French edit
Noun edit
glyptodon m (plural glyptodons)
Further reading edit
- “glyptodon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.