perissodactyl
nounEtymology From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, “uneven”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger, toe”). Compare the taxon name Perissodactyla.
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Any ungulate mammal with an odd number of toes and belonging to the Perissodactyla, an equid, a tapir, or a rhinoceros.
- The chalicotheres were among the strangest mammals that ever lived. They were perissodactyls - relatives of horses, rhinos and tapirs - and if all you had seen of one was its head, you might have mistaken it for a very strange horse.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 102:
- Derived terms
- perissodactylism
- Related terms
- perissodactylous, artiodactyl