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EQUIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Equidae mean?
• EQUIDAE (noun)
The noun EQUIDAE has 1 sense:
1. horses; asses; zebras; extinct animals
Familiarity information: EQUIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Horses; asses; zebras; extinct animals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Equidae; family Equidae
Hypernyms ("Equidae" is a kind of...):
mammal family (a family of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "Equidae"):
Equus; genus Equus (type genus of the Equidae: only surviving genus of the family Equidae)
equid; equine (hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck)
genus Hyracotherium; Hyracotherium (extinct horse genus; formerly called eohippus)
genus Mesohippus; genus Protohippus (a genus of Equidae)
female horse; mare (female equine animal)
Holonyms ("Equidae" is a member of...):
order Perissodactyla; Perissodactyla (nonruminant ungulates: horses; tapirs; rhinoceros; extinct forms)
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