a fossil herbivorous mammal-like reptile of the late Permian and Triassic periods, with beaked jaws and no teeth apart from two tusks in the upper jaw of the male 二齿兽
Dicynodon and other genera, infra-order Dicynodontia, order Therapsida 二齿兽属及其他属,二齿兽下目,兽孔目
语源
mid 19th cent.: from modern Latin Dicynodontia (plural), from Greek di- 'two' + kuōn 'dog' + odous, odont- 'tooth'