/seuh lee"neuh don', -len"euh-/ , n.
either of two insectivores of the genus Solenodon, resembling a large shrew and having small eyes, a long and pointy snout, and a scaly tail, including the coarse-haired, reddish-brown to grayish-black S. paradoxus of Hispaniola and the finer-haired, usually darker S. cubanus of Cuba: S. paradoxus is an endangered species; S. cubanus is rare and possibly endangered.
[ 1830-40; solén channel, pipe, syringe + -odon -toothed (see -ODONT) ]