Definition of "artiodactyle" []

• One of the Artiodactyla, a group of ungulates. (noun)

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• "Finally, it appears that this very recently extinct beast presents a highly generalized type of structure, uniting in one organic form both artiodactyle and perissodactyle characters, and that in a manner not similarly found in any other known creature living, or fossil."
• "Others again inclined the balance of probability towards the artiodactyle."
• "At the same time the differentiation of artiodactyle and perissodactyle forms existed as long ago as in the period of the Eocene ungulata, and that in a marked degree, as has been before observed."