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Definition of Hyracoid
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Hyracoidea.
Definition of Hyracoid
1. Noun. An animal of the order Hyracoidea, i.e. a hyrax. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or relating to the hyraxes (order ''Hyracoidea''). ¹
3. Adjective. Displaying characteristics typical of hyraxes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hyracoid
1. a hyrax [n -S] - See also: hyrax
Medical Definition of Hyracoid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyracoid
Literary usage of Hyracoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1906)
"I am indebted to my friend Professor Eberhard Fraas for a second opportunity to
describe a fossil hyracoid. The first was that afforded by the description ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"Peculiar interest attaches to the discovery of bones of a large hyracoid about
the size of a tapir, belonging to a new genus. It is only within recent years ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... a large ungulate with a pair of enormous horns on the front part of the skull,
and a new hyracoid, ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"The hyracoid carpus is arranged on the linear plan with separate centrale while
in the tarsus the ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1903)
"One of the most interesting finds made on this occasion is the left maxilla, with
the teeth, of a very large hyracoid mammal which must have been about the ..."
6. Evolution of Mammalian Molar Teeth by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1907)
"... A Fossil hyracoid from Samos, Lower Pliocene, in the Stuttgart Collection," Prof.
Fourth International Congre** of Zoology, Cambridge, 1898, pp. ..."
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