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Thesaurus: perissodactyla

A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla.

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  1. n. pl. A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla.
  2. A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposed to Artiodactyla.
  3. A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have anodd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; -- opposedto Artiodactyla.
  4. n nonruminant ungulates: horses; tapirs; rhinoceros; extinct forms