ODD-TOED UNGULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does odd-toed ungulate mean? 

• ODD-TOED UNGULATE (noun)
  The noun ODD-TOED UNGULATE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ODD-TOED UNGULATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ODD-TOED UNGULATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

odd-toed ungulate; perissodactyl; perissodactyl mammal

Hypernyms ("odd-toed ungulate" 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 "odd-toed ungulate"):

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

rhino; rhinoceros (massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout)

tapir (large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout)

Holonyms ("odd-toed ungulate" is a member of...):

order Perissodactyla; Perissodactyla (nonruminant ungulates: horses; tapirs; rhinoceros; extinct forms)

Antonym:

even-toed ungulate (placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot)

 Context examples 

The taxonomic order of mammals that includes odd-toed ungulates such as horses, zebras, tapirs, and rhinoceroses.

(Perissodactyla, NCI Thesaurus)