GOMPHOTHERE

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Meaning:

Extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gomphothere" is a kind of...):

elephant (five-toed pachyderm)

Holonyms ("gomphothere" is a member of...):

genus Gomphotherium; Gomphotherium (type genus of the Gomphotheriidae)

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