Definition of Order Hyracoidea

1. Noun. Hyraxes and some extinct animals.

Exact synonyms: Hyracoidea
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Member holonyms: Family Procaviidae, Procaviidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Hyracoidea

order Gruiformes
order Guttiferales
order Gymnophiona
order Haemosporidia
order Haplosporidia
order Heliozoa
order Helotiales
order Hemiptera
order Heterosomata
order Heterotrichales
order Hymenogastrales
order Hymenoptera
order Hypericales
order Hypermastigina
order Hypocreales
order Hyracoidea (current term)
order Ichthyosauria
order Ictodosauria
order Insectivora
order Insessores
order Isoetales
order Isopoda
order Isoptera
order Isospondyli
order Juglandales
order Jungermanniales
order Lagomorpha
order Laminariales
order Lechanorales
order Lepidodendrales

Literary usage of Order Hyracoidea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Classification of Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1869)
"Linnaeus put it among Rodentia, Cuvier under Pachydermata; but its peculiarities are so great that it may form the type of a distinct order, Hyracoidea. ..."

2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... the hippopotamus and swine are arranged In the section Artiodactyla of the same order; while the hyrax has a separate order — Hyracoidea — to itself. ..."

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