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MESOHIPPUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mesohippus mean?
• MESOHIPPUS (noun)
The noun MESOHIPPUS has 1 sense:
1. North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses
Familiarity information: MESOHIPPUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("mesohippus" is a kind of...):
Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)
Holonyms ("mesohippus" is a member of...):
genus Mesohippus (a genus of Equidae)
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