DAWN HORSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dawn horse mean? 

• DAWN HORSE (noun)
  The noun DAWN HORSE has 1 sense:

1. earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal

  Familiarity information: DAWN HORSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAWN HORSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

dawn horse; eohippus

Hypernyms ("dawn horse" is a kind of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

Holonyms ("dawn horse" is a member of...):

genus Hyracotherium; Hyracotherium (extinct horse genus; formerly called eohippus)