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a large extinct herbivorous South American mammal of the genus Toxodon, a member of the hoofed-mammal order Notoungulata
The museum reconstructed a toxodon from fossils found in Pleistocene deposits.
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From the New Latin genus name Toxodon, built from Greek toxon ("bow") + odous, stem odont- ("tooth"). Richard Owen named the genus for its curved, bow-shaped teeth after fossils collected in South America by Charles Darwin.