ARTIODACTYL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artiodactyl mean? 

• ARTIODACTYL (noun)
  The noun ARTIODACTYL has 1 sense:

1. placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot

  Familiarity information: ARTIODACTYL used as a noun is very rare.

• ARTIODACTYL (adjective)
  The adjective ARTIODACTYL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla

  Familiarity information: ARTIODACTYL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTIODACTYL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

artiodactyl; artiodactyl mammal; even-toed ungulate

Hypernyms ("artiodactyl" is a kind of...):

hoofed mammal; ungulate (any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "artiodactyl"):

swine (stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals)

musk hog; peccary (nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America)

hippo; hippopotamus; Hippopotamus amphibius; river horse (massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa)

ruminant (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments)

camel (cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions)

llama (wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump)

Vicugna vicugna; vicuna (small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat)

Holonyms ("artiodactyl" is a member of...):

Artiodactyla; order Artiodactyla (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)

• ARTIODACTYL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

artiodactyl; artiodactylous; even-toed

Domain category:

zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)

Pertainym:

order Artiodactyla (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)