Crossword-Solution: GLYPTODONT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Glyptodont | n. | One of a family (Glyptodontidae) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known. |
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| any of a family of extinct S. American edentates | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
GATAE
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with GLYPTODONT (5)
Among these mighty trees roamed the glyptodont; the 16-foot armadillo with a tail like the morning-star of the old crusaders, monstrously magnified; the giraffe camel; the titanothere; the Columbian elephant, about the size of a trolley car and with 15-foot tusks; the giant sloth which could look into a second-story window; here the saber-toothed tiger fought with the megatherium; mighty rhinoceroses sloshed their clumsy way, and huge and grotesque birds filled the air with their flappings.
All the above are of Pleistocene and perhaps Pliocene age, but in the Santa Cruz beds of Patagonia there occur the two curious genera _Propalaeohoplophorus_ and _Peltephilus_, the former of which is a primitive and generalized type of glyptodont, while the latter seems to come nearer to the armadillos.
All the plates of the carapace are arranged in definite transverse rows; it has been observed, too, that some of the anterior scutes overlap like those of the Armadillos, to which this animal possesses further likenesses in the exclusion of the maxillae from the border of the nostril (a Glyptodont character), and the comparative feebleness of the scutes.
Museum expedition leader in the Tree Cactus Country.] [Illustration: CARRYING SHELL OF GLYPTODONT Eight Mexican peons bearing armor of giant armadillo.] “If you wanted to, Father—” the boy began, and stopped.
But they’re mighty bashful, mighty bashful.” “In that particular, thay ain’t a-tall like the club-tailed glyptodont,” said Red, “which is a very ferocious and vicious beast.