artiodáctilo

Definitions of artiodáctilo
  1. noun
    placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot
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    perisodáctilo
    placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot
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    cerdo, puerco
    stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals
    pécari
    nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America
    hipopótamo
    massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
    rumiante
    any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
    camello
    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
    vicuña
    small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat
    cochino, cocho, gorrino, guarro, marrano
    domestic swine
    verraco
    an uncastrated male hog
    cerda, cochina, guarra, marrana, puerca
    an adult female hog
    jabalí
    Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States
    babirusa
    Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth
    facochero
    African wild swine with warty protuberances on the face and large protruding tusks
    bóvido
    hollow-horned ruminants
    antílope americano
    fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns
    ciervo, cérvido, venado
    distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
    dromedario
    one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia
    guanaco
    wild llama
    alpaca
    domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco
    jirafa
    tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa
    type of:
    ungulado
    any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically
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