even-toed ungulate (redirected from Even-toed ungulates)

even-toed ungulate

See artiodactyl.

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even-toed ungulate - placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal hoofed mammal, ungulate - any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically 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 swine - stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals musk hog, peccary - nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, river horse, hippo - 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 odd-toed ungulate, perissodactyl, perissodactyl mammal - placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot