Definition of Even-toed

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla.

Exact synonyms: Artiodactyl, Artiodactylous
Category relationships: Zoological Science, Zoology
Partainyms: Order Artiodactyla, Order Artiodactyla, Order Artiodactyla
Derivative terms: Artiodactyla

Lexicographical Neighbors of Even-toed

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even-
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even-christian
even-handed
even-handedness
even-keel
even-minded
even-mindedness
even-pinnate
even-pinnate leaf
even-servant
even-steven
even-stevens
even-tempered
even-toed (current term)
even-toed ungulate
even-year runs
even Homer nods
even Jove nods
even a little
even as
even as we speak
even chance
even function
even functions
even if
even keel
even money
even odds

Literary usage of Even-toed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"The five-toed ancestors of the earliest Eocene had already developed feet that gave promise of odd-toed and even-toed descendants; ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1885)
"Again, the larger cattle, besides being divided into ruminants and non-ruminants, are classified as even-toed and odd-toed beasts. ..."

3. The Principal forms of the skeleton and of the teeth by Richard Owen (1854)
"... more significative of natural affinity when contrasted with the skeletons of the hoofed animals with digits in uneven number. Thus, in the even-toed or ..."

4. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1854)
"... and the spirally folded colon, which equally indicate the mutual affinities of the even-toed or ..."

5. History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1894)
"And thus the Ruminants take their place as a subordinate group of the great natural even-toed Division of the Hoofed Section of Mammals; and the Horse is ..."

6. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1876)
"In this connection, it is of interest to note that the character of odd-toed is a mark of higher grade than that of even-toed, as is illustrated by its ..."

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