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artiodactyla
n.
hoofed mammal possessing an even number of toes (Zoology)
Even-toed ungulate
The even-toed ungulates (order Artiodactyla) are ungulates (hoofed animals) whose weight is borne approximately equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than primarily by the third toe as are odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls), such as horses.
Artiodactyla
Noun
1. an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes
(synonym) order Artiodactyla
(hypernym) animal order
(member-holonym) Eutheria, subclass Eutheria
(member-meronym) even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal
Artiodactyla
(n. pl.)
One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; -- opposed to Perissodactyla.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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