artiodactyl mammal

Noun
  1. Placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot (synset 102397129)
    is a type of: hoofed mammal, ungulate - any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically
    subtypes:
    • swine - stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals
    • musk hog, peccary - nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America
    • hippo, hippopotamus, hippopotamus amphibius, river horse - massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
    • ruminant - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
    • camel - cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions
    • llama - wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump
    • vicugna vicugna, vicuna - small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat
    belongs to: artiodactyla, order artiodactyla - an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes
    same as: artiodactyl, even-toed ungulate

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