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EOHIPPUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eohippus mean?
• EOHIPPUS (noun)
The noun EOHIPPUS has 1 sense:
1. earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal
Familiarity information: EOHIPPUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
dawn horse; eohippus
Hypernyms ("eohippus" is a kind of...):
Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)
Holonyms ("eohippus" is a member of...):
genus Hyracotherium; Hyracotherium (extinct horse genus; formerly called eohippus)
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