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thero-|θɪərəʊ|repr. Gr. θηρο-, combining form of θήρ wild beast; hence theroid, theropod, etc.; also the following: therocephalian |-siːˈfeɪlɪən| [Gr. κεϕαλή head], a. belonging to an extinct order of carnivorous reptiles having a skull of the mammalian type; n. a reptile of this order. therocrotaphous |-ˈkrɒtəfəs| a. [Gr. κρόταϕος the temple], having the temporal bone resembling that of mammals. ˈtherodont n. and a., = Theriodont (Cent. Dict. 1891): see therio-. theˈrolatry [-latry], beast-worship, worship of animals. ˌtheromorphoˈlogical a., of or pertaining to the morphology of the lower animals.1904Amer. Nat. Feb. 103 These cynodonts have lost several of the other more primitive characters of the *therocephalians, such as teeth in the palate.1907Science 6 Dec. 796 Three new Therocephalian genera have been discovered in beds which are probably Middle Permian.Ibid., The discovery of this new reptile, Galechirus, strongly favors the descent of the Therocephalians from an early Rhyncocephaloid ancestor.1907Williston in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXXII. 488 The plesiosaurs have a larger temporal vacuity, larger indeed than is to be found in any other reptiles of the *therocrotaphous (I coin the word) type.1873W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 311 Mahomet's alteration of a national character, the complete obliteration of *therolatry.1885Hartmann Anthropoid Apes iii. 111 Virchow and W. Gruber have agreed in representing this frontal process as *theromorphological—that is, as a characteristic of the lower animals, and more especially of apes.
thero- /ˈθɪərəʊ/ combining form.
ORIGIN: Greek thēro- combining form of thēr wild animal: see -o-.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling an animal, esp. (in Zoology) a mammal. Cf. therio-.
 DERIVATIVE therocephalian /-sɪˈfeɪlɪən/ adjective & noun (a) adjective of or pertaining to an extinct group (Therocephalia) of carnivorous therapsids; (b) noun an animal of this group: E20.
theˈrology noun (rare) = mammalogy L19.
theromorph noun (Palaeontology, now rare) a synapsid, esp. a pelycosaur L19.
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