artiodactyles

Definitions of artiodactyles
  1. noun
    placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot
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    antonyms:
    ongulé, périssodactyle
    placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot
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    cochon de lait, porcelet
    stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals
    hippopotame, pachyderme, tapir
    massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
    ruminants
    any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
    chameau
    cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions
    lama
    wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump
    cochon, porc
    domestic swine
    sanglier
    Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States
    bovidés
    hollow-horned ruminants
    cerf
    distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
    dromadaire
    one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia
    alpaga
    domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco
    girafe
    tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa
    type of:
    ongulé
    any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically
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