EQUUS CABALLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Equus caballus mean? 

• EQUUS CABALLUS (noun)
  The noun EQUUS CABALLUS has 1 sense:

1. solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

  Familiarity information: EQUUS CABALLUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUUS CABALLUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Equus caballus; horse

Hypernyms ("Equus caballus" is a kind of...):

equid; equine (hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck)

Meronyms (parts of "Equus caballus"):

encolure (the mane of a horse)

poll (the part of the head between the ears)

gaskin (lower part of a horse's thigh between the hock and the stifle)

withers (the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals)

horseflesh; horsemeat (the flesh of horses as food)

horse's foot (the hoof of a horse)

horseback (the back of a horse)

Meronyms (members of "Equus caballus"):

foal (a young horse)

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

pony (any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder)

pinto (a spotted or calico horse or pony)

palomino (a horse of light tan or golden color with cream-colored or white mane and tail)

sorrel (a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color)

bay (a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color)

liver chestnut (a solid dark brown horse)

chestnut (a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse)

high stepper; stepper (a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting)

pacer (a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together)

post-horse; post horse; poster (a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers)

workhorse (a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor)

harness horse (horse used for pulling vehicles)

stalking-horse (a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game)

steeplechaser (a horse trained to run in steeplechases)

bangtail; race horse; racehorse (a horse bred for racing)

hack; jade; nag; plug (an old or over-worked horse)

hack (a horse kept for hire)

wild horse (undomesticated or feral domestic horse)

polo pony (a small agile horse specially bred and trained for playing polo)

pony (a range horse of the western United States)

mount; riding horse; saddle horse (a lightweight horse kept for riding only)

female horse; mare (female equine animal)

male horse (the male of species Equus caballus)

protohippus (Pliocene horse approaching donkeys in size)

mesohippus (North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses)

dawn horse; eohippus (earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal)

gee-gee (a word for horse used by children or in adult slang)

stable companion; stablemate (a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person)

roan (a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray)

Holonyms ("Equus caballus" is a member of...):

Equus; genus Equus (type genus of the Equidae: only surviving genus of the family Equidae)

 Context examples 

The domestic horse, Equus caballus.

(Horse, NCI Thesaurus)