Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AN-THRA-CO-THE'RI-UM
AN-THRA-CO-THE'RI-UM, n. [Gr. ανθραξ, a coal, and θηριον, a beast.]
An animal somewhat like a hog, whose remains are found in coal: now extinct. – Cuvier.
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