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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
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Member holonyms: Family Procaviidae, Procaviidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Hyracoidea
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. ..."