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Perissodactyl

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any ungulate mammal with an odd number of toes and belonging to the Perissodactyla, an equid, a tapir, or a rhinoceros.

    "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."

  2. 2
    placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “uneven”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “a finger, toe”). Compare the genus name Perissodactyla.

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