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DAWN HORSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal
Synonyms:
dawn horse; eohippus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dawn horse" is a kind of...):
Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)
Holonyms ("dawn horse" is a member of...):
genus Hyracotherium; Hyracotherium (extinct horse genus; formerly called eohippus)