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Definition of Hyracoidea
1. Noun. Hyraxes and some extinct animals.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Member holonyms: Family Procaviidae, Procaviidae
Definition of Hyracoidea
1. n. pl. An order of small hoofed mammals, comprising the single living genus Hyrax.
Medical Definition of Hyracoidea
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyracoidea
Literary usage of Hyracoidea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"hyracoidea.—This is a very small order which >een constituted by Huxley for the
reception of two or little animals, which make up the single genus Hyrax. î ..."
2. An Introduction to the Osteology of the Mammalia by William Henry Flower (1885)
"THE SKULL IN THE UNGULATA, hyracoidea, AND PROBOSCIDEA. Order UNGULATA ; Sub-order
Perissodactyla. — In the Horse the whole skull is greatly elongated, ..."
3. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"hyracoidea (CONEYS).—This small order consists of but one living genus of primitive
ungulates. The coney (Fig. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"It is now possible to define the suborder hyracoidea as including ungulates with
a centrale in the ..."
5. A Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds in the Department of Geology and by Arthur Smith Woodward (1904)
"hyracoidea. Pier-case The small existing hyraxes of Africa, Arabia, and Syria,
20g are the scarcely altered survivors of a group of Eocene hoofed mammals ..."
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