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Definition of Dawn horse

1. Noun. Earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dawn Horse

Literary usage of Dawn horse

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

1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"... larger than a small dog, which it resembled. The color was probably dun, with inconspicuous spots or stripes. The Eohippus (Marsh) or "dawn horse," as ..."

2. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"The horse family (Equidae, from Equus caballus, the living horse) appeared almost simultaneously in Europe and America in the "dawn horse" (Eohippus) early ..."

3. Is Darwin Right?: Or, The Origin of Man by William Denton (1881)
"The day follows the dawn because the sun is below the horizon and is rising ; and the horse followed the dawn-horse because the spiritual ideal of the horse ..."

4. An Introduction to the Study of Fossils (plants and Animals) by Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1914)
"This change from the little Eohippus, the " dawn horse," to the large modern horse took place through changes in all parts of the skeleton. ..."

5. Walks and Talks in the Geological Field by Alexander Winchell (1898)
"Here further were two forms more related to the horse, but only as large Eohippus as a f0x—Eo-hip'-pus (Dawn-horse) and O-ro-hip'-pus (Mountain-horse). ..."

6. The Monster-hunters by Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1916)
"Hippus ' means ' horse,' and ' eo ' means ' dawn,' " explained the boy, " so the Eohippus is the dawn horse, or the Dawn of the Horse. ..."

7. A Textbook of Geology by Amadeus William Grabau (1921)
"Eohippus, the dawn horse (Fig. 1903) from the Palaeocene (Wa- satch) of western North America. This was a small, graceful animal, about a foot in height, ..."

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