Eohippus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Hyracotherium.
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  • n. Extinct early Eocene mammal, Hyracotherium leporinum
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. an extinct primitive dog-sized 4-toed Eocene mammal, the earliest horse known in the line of descent of the modern horse. It is classed in the extinct genus Hydracotherium. Called also dawn horse.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A genus of Eocene horses, representing the oldest known type of the family Equidæ, founded by Marsh (1876) upon remains from the coryphodon-beds of the Lower Eocene of New Mexico, indicating a kind of horse about as large as a fox, with four toes and a half on each fore foot, all incased in horn and forming hoofs, and three hoofed toes on each hind foot.
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  • n. earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    equus caballus    horse   
    Variant
    dawn horse   
    Hyponym
    Hyracotherium   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dawn horse   
     
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