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Definition of Artiodactyls
1. artiodactyl [n] - See also: artiodactyl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Artiodactyls
Literary usage of Artiodactyls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The White River Badlands by Cleophas Cisney O'Harra (1920)
"artiodactyls have a long time constituted the dominant ungulate order. They include
a great assemblage of creatures of many types but with marked unity of ..."
2. An Introduction to the Mammalian Dentition by Thomas Wingate Todd (1918)
"CHAPTER XII THE ARTIODACTYL UNGULATES Ungulates in general—Differences between
artiodactyls and Perissodactyls—The Pigs and Hippopotamus—Camels and ..."
3. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Fore feet of artiodactyls. A, pig, Sus scrofa; B, red deer, Cen'us elaphus; C,
camel, Camelus bactrianus. To show progressive reduction of lateral digits. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1898)
"One of the most marked changes between the mammalian life of the Bridger and that
of the Uinta is in the great increase of the artiodactyls in general and ..."
5. A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere by William Berryman Scott (1913)
"CHAPTER IX HISTORY OF THE ARTIODACTYLA THE artiodactyls are and for a very long
... At the present time the artiodactyls are the dominant ungulate order, ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The true ruminants (Pécora) of the present day are, among other characteristics,
distinguished from the remaining artiodactyls by the hollow tympanic bulla; ..."
7. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph Le Conte (1903)
"The artiodactyls always have their toes in pairs: there may be only two toes,
... Now in the Earliest Tertiary the sub-orders artiodactyls and ..."
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