Category:Paleotherium

Pa`le*o*the"ri*um, n. Etym: [nl., fr. Gr. (paleon.)

Defn: an extinct genus of herbivorous tertiary mammals, once supposed To have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more Slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama. [written also Palæotherium.]