Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AN'O-PLO-THER, or AN-O-PLO-THE'RI-UM, n. [Gr. αν neg., ὁπλον, arms, and θηριον, beast. So named because not armed with canine teeth.]

This is the name which Cuvier has given to a genus of animals, whose bones are found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; a genus now extinct.