Home › Words › D › dicynodontdicynodontdicynodont means A member of the infraorder Dicynodontia of dominant herbivores of the Late Permian, the most successful group of non-mammalian synapsids.EtymologyFrom di- + cyno- + -odont. From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “twice”) + κύων (kúōn, “dog”) + ὀδόντος (odóntos, “tooth”).nounA member of the infraorder Dicynodontia of dominant herbivores of the Late Permian, the most successful group of non-mammalian synapsids.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.dicynodontid 80% match — Any therapsid in the family Dicynodontidae. vs dicynodont →cynodont 73% match — Any of several small carnivorous synapsids in the clade Cynodontia, ancestral to mammals and extinct close relatives. vs dicynodont →cryptodontian 70% match — Any dicynodont therapsid of the clade Cryptodontia vs dicynodont →eucynodont 69% match — Any therapsid of the infraorder Eucynodontia. vs dicynodont →diplocynodontid 68% match — Any extinct crocodilian of the subfamily Diplocynodontinae vs dicynodont →cynodontian 66% match — Any therapsid of the suborder Cynodontia. vs dicynodont →dinoceratan 66% match — Any of various extinct mammals, of the order †Dinocerata (syn. Uintatheria), somewhat similar to the rhinoceros. vs dicynodont →sphenacodontian 63% match — Any synapsid of the clade Sphenacodontia. vs dicynodont →