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DINOCERATA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small order of primitive ungulates of the Paleocene and Eocene
Synonyms:
Dinocerata; order Dinocerata
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Dinocerata" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Dinocerata"):
family Uintatheriidae; Uintatheriidae (an extinct family of Dinocerata)
Holonyms ("Dinocerata" is a member of...):
Ungulata (in former classifications a major division of Mammalia comprising all hoofed mammals; now divided into the orders Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) and Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates))