Anoplotherium

(ăn-o-plo-the're-um.) [Gr. anoplos, unarmed, and therion, wild beast.) (Pal.) An extinct gen. of animals, from the Upper Eocene, which seem to range between the Pachyderm at a and the Ruminant i a; characterized by the shortne and feeble size of the canine teeth, which resemble the incisors, and are consequently unfit for being used as weapons of of fence. The A. commune, of Cuvier, is abt. the size of a wild boar, but longer in the body, with the head of an oblong form, and a tail of considerable thickne and. as long as the body. [s. 34]