Home › Words › P › paleodontpaleodontpaleodont means an artiodactyl belonging to the suborder Paleodonta.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, paleodont ranks #16,734 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom paleo- + -odont.nounAn artiodactyl belonging to the suborder Paleodonta.e.g.“Artiodactyls first appear in the fossil record in the Eocene as small generalized creatures scarcely distinguishable from primitive insectivores or early carnivores. These were the paleodonts […]” — 1960, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.paleognathous 65% match — Belonging or relating to the paleognaths. vs paleodont →pantodontan 65% match — Any extinct eutherian mammal of the suborder †Pantodonta vs paleodont →paleoparadoxiid 64% match — Any extinct aquatic mammal of the family Paleoparadoxiidae vs paleodont →artiodactylan 63% match — Any even-toed ungulate of the order Artiodactyla vs paleodont →artiodactylid 63% match — Any of the order Artiodactyla of ungulates. vs paleodont →ptilodontoid 63% match — Any of the superfamily †Ptilodontoidea of extinct mammals. vs paleodont →artiodactylate 62% match — Any even-toed ungulate of the order Artiodactyla vs paleodont →docodontan 62% match — Any extinct mammaliaform of the order Docodonta vs paleodont →