Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ancient mammal, Modern Latin, from Baluchi (see Baluchistan) + Greek therion "beast" (see fierce). So called because its fossils originally were found there.
Usage examples of "baluchitherium".
Three times the height of a man, the baluchitherium rose in panic and pain.
The Baluchitherium was of an earlier age of the earth and flourished under an earlier canopy.
Something that looked very like the Baluchitherium did appear, however.
Well, it was a giant horse and a mighty succulent horse, but it looked like the Baluchitherium of old.
Snow, blinding as sand, howled about the unprotected legs of my baluchitherium, picked like the beaks of carrion birds at his eyes.
The baluchitherium floundered in a drift of snow, churning enormously to his own disadvantage.
Gray, churned snow, muddy slush stained red, my enormous rearing baluchitherium and the toppling headless body of my enemy .
It seemed certain to me then, as it had in that penultimate moment of the storm with my baluchitherium dead at my feet, that I was about to die.
The membrane convulsed like a fire-stung baluchitherium, ripping free of the crater wall with the sound of a great dead tree splitting.
Yes, I found his scent there, an odor I knew from dream, a smell of the earth, of moist clods thrown up to view by the pounding hoofs of a baluchitherium, sweet and dark.
Black and vast, a bird half the size of a baluchitherium was stooping on us, its dreadful claws extended, wings raised.
It is their world too, a world without kittens or baluchitherium restructs, lacking tribes, and machines which speak, and great boasting and great anger.
I licked the salt from her small dark breasts, licked her eyes, licked her waxy small ears, licked her throat, and her hard-muscled legs pressed into my buttocks, her heels bruised me, her teeth came at me nipping and laughing, and every portion of my skin and bowels and senses and brain were connected as Darkbloom had taught me they were connected, a skein of delirious pleasure and mirth, and Lleehn began to lose control, her body convulsing, her voice rising, a hooting song fit to bring a baluchitherium stallion rearing and snorting to stud.
Ganymeans have not seen an animal comparable to Baluchitherium before.
Another Ganymean was pointing beyond Baluchitherium to a smaller but more ferocious-looking animal posed with one paw raised and lips curled back to reveal a set of fearsome, pointed teeth.