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Webster 1913 Edition
Cheirotherium
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Cheiˊro-the′ri-um
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Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
χείρ
hand + θηρίον
beast.] (Poleon.)
A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.