mesonychid

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mesonychid (plural mesonychids)

  1. (biology) An extinct carnivore of the order †Mesonychia.
    • 1971 Dec, National Geographic, page 884:
      The ancestors of modern cetaceans were probably large land creatures called mesonychids [...] that lived in the Paleocene epoch.