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mesohippus


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mesohippus  \Mes`o*hip"pus\,  n.  [NL.,  fr  Gr  me`sos  middle  +  ?  a 
  horse.]  (Paleon.) 
  An  extinct  mammal  of  the  Horse  family,  but  not  larger  than  a 
  sheep,  and  having  three  toes  on  each  foot. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mesohippus 
  n  :  North  American  3-toed  Oligocene  animal;  probably  not 
  directly  ancestral  to  modern  horses 




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