hemicyonine

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hemicyonine (plural hemicyonines)

  1. A member of the extinct subfamily Hemicyoninae.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 87:
      The dog-bears (hemicyonines) looked like bulky, short-tailed dogs, but were in fact related to bears, and if this is not confusing enough, there was also a group of bear-dogs (amphycyonids).