EVEN-TOED UNGULATE

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

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

1. placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVEN-TOED UNGULATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

artiodactyl; artiodactyl mammal; even-toed ungulate

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

swine (stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals)

musk hog; peccary (nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America)

hippo; hippopotamus; Hippopotamus amphibius; river horse (massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa)

ruminant (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments)

camel (cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions)

llama (wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump)

Vicugna vicugna; vicuna (small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat)

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

Artiodactyla; order Artiodactyla (an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes)

Antonym:

odd-toed ungulate (placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot)

 Context examples 

The taxonomic order of mammals that includes even-toed ungulates such as pigs, cows, goats and sheep.

(Artiodactyla, NCI Thesaurus)