DINOCERATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dinocerata mean? 

• DINOCERATA (noun)
  The noun DINOCERATA has 1 sense:

1. small order of primitive ungulates of the Paleocene and Eocene

  Familiarity information: DINOCERATA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DINOCERATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small order of primitive ungulates of the Paleocene and Eocene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Dinocerata; order Dinocerata

Hypernyms ("Dinocerata" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Dinocerata"):

family Uintatheriidae; Uintatheriidae (an extinct family of Dinocerata)

Holonyms ("Dinocerata" is a member of...):

Ungulata (in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals; now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates))