̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈthirēəm noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Uinta co., southwest Wyo. + New Latin -therium
1. capitalized : a genus (the type of the family Uintatheriidae) of large herbivorous ungulate mammals of the order Dinocerata from the Eocene of Wyoming resembling elephants in size and in the conformation of their limbs and having three pairs of bony protuberances respectively on the parietal, maxillary, and nasal bones of the skill, a pair of canine tusks guarded by downwardly directed processes of the lower jaw but no upper incisors, and a proportionately very small brain
2. pl uin·ta·the·ria -rēə : a mammal of the genus Uintatherium