perissodactyl

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek περισσός (perissós, uneven) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, a finger, toe).

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perissodactyl (plural perissodactyls)

  1. Any ungulate mammal with an odd number of toes and belonging to the Perissodactyla, including the horses, zebra, and rhinoceros.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 102:
      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.

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