perissodactyl
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “uneven”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger, toe”).
Noun[edit]
perissodactyl (plural perissodactyls)
- Any ungulate mammal with an odd number of toes and belonging to the Perissodactyla, including the horses, zebra, and rhinoceros.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 102:
- The chalicotheres were among the strangest mammals that ever lived. They were perissodactyls - relatives of horses, rhinos and tapirs - and if all you had seen of one was its head, you might have mistaken it for a very strange horse.
Translations[edit]
odd-toed ungulate
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