even-toed ungulate

even-toed ungulate

See artiodactyl.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

even-toed ungulate - placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each footartiodactyl, artiodactyl mammalhoofed mammal, ungulate - any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomicallyArtiodactyla, 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 toesswine - stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animalsmusk hog, peccary - nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South Americahippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, river horse, hippo - massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africaruminant - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartmentscamel - cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regionsllama - wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a humpVicugna vicugna, vicuna - small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoatodd-toed ungulate, perissodactyl, perissodactyl mammal - placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot