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Webster 1913 Edition

Oreodon

O′re-o-don

,

p

rop.

Noun.

[Gr.

ὄρος

,

-εος

, mountain +

ὀδούς

,

ὀδόντος

, tooth.]

(Paleon.)

A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.