Eohippus

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  • noun. A hyracotherium.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A genus of Eocene horses, representing the oldest known type of the family Equidæ, founded by Marsh (1876) upon remains from the coryphodon-beds of the Lower Eocene of New Mexico, indicating a kind of horse about as large as a fox, with four toes and a half on each fore foot, all incased in horn and forming hoofs, and three hoofed toes on each hind foot.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. an extinct primitive dog-sized 4-toed Eocene mammal, the earliest horse known in the line of descent of the modern horse. It is classed in the extinct genus Hydracotherium. Called also dawn horse.
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  • noun. Extinct early Eocene mammal, Hyracotherium leporinum
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal
    • Word Usage
    "The Valley somehow has various beasties from pre-history including the eohippus and the allosaurus."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    equus caballus  horse  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Hyracotherium  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dawn horse  
    variant
    dawn horse  
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