Paleotherium


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Pa`le`o`the´ri`um


n.1.(Paleon.) An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.