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Definition of Perissodactyls
1. perissodactyl [n] - See also: perissodactyl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perissodactyls
Literary usage of Perissodactyls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The White River Badlands by Cleophas Cisney O'Harra (1920)
"Animals of this type are known as perissodactyls. ... The horse, the tapir, and
the rhinoceros are well known representatives of the perissodactyls. ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1906)
"But in the Basal Eocene there is nothing of this kind, for the Artiodactyls and
perissodactyls are not derivable from the ..."
3. A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere by William Berryman Scott (1913)
"The femur never has the third trochanter, which is always present in the
perissodactyls. Another respect in which the artiodactyls differ from all ..."
4. An Introduction to the Mammalian Dentition by Thomas Wingate Todd (1918)
"Broadly speaking the distinction of Artiodactyls and perissodactyls as even-toed
and odd-toed Ungulates respectively is doubtless good enough but for ..."
5. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1886)
"He therefore divided all Ungulates into perissodactyls (odd-toed) and
Artiodactyls (even-toed). A Perissodactyl may have five toes, ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1894)
"Recent studies of Cope, Schlosser, Pavlow, Filhol have been directed to the
phylogeny of the perissodactyls with very different conclusions. ..."
7. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1894)
"Recent studies of Cope, Schlosser, Pavlow, Filhol have been directed to the
phylogeny of the perissodactyls with very different conclusions. ..."
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