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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the Linnean system of classification (1766), the fifth of the six orders of the class Mammalia, containing hoofed quadrupeds with incisors in both jaws, and consisting of the four genera Equus, Hippopotamus, Sus, and Rhinoceros.

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