mesohippus

Definitions of mesohippus
  1. noun
    North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses
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    type of:
    Equus caballus, horse
    solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
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