English▸ noun an early hoofed mammal of the Eocene epoch, with a heavy body and a grotesque head with several bony hornlike swellings and long canine teeth.
Family Uintatheriidae, order Dinocerata, including Uintatherium.
– ORIGIN late 19th century: from modern Latin Uintatherium, from Uinta(h), the name of a mountain range in Utah, US (where remains were found), + Greek thērion ‘wild beast’.