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ARTIODACTYL MAMMAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot
Synonyms:
artiodactyl; artiodactyl mammal; even-toed ungulate
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("artiodactyl mammal" is a kind of...):
hoofed mammal; ungulate (any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "artiodactyl mammal"):
swine (stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals)
musk hog; peccary (nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America)
hippo; hippopotamus; Hippopotamus amphibius; river horse (massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa)
ruminant (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments)
camel (cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions)
llama (wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump)
Vicugna vicugna; vicuna (small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat)
Holonyms ("artiodactyl mammal" is a member of...):
Artiodactyla; order Artiodactyla (an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes)
