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Definition of Hyracoids
1. hyracoid [n] - See also: hyracoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyracoids
Literary usage of Hyracoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"The so-called hyracoids from the Fayum Province of Egypt ... All the Egyptian
hyracoids have the base of the coronoid perforated by a branch of the dental ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"He leaves the animal among the hyracoids and suggests that it is of South American
origin, a suggestion of considerable probability and of very great ..."
3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1906)
"This specimen decidedly confirms the general resemblance of these Eocene animals
to the modern hyracoids. Comparison of the published figures and of the ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1877)
"Thus among Mammals the suture is present in all below the hyracoids, absent in
all above. In man there is even less tendency towards its occurrence in lower ..."
5. A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere by William Berryman Scott (1913)
"... the edentates to the latter, the elephants and hyracoids to Africa and Asia.
Carnivores and rodents, on the contrary, are found in every continent, ..."
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