Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Miocene and Pliocene fossil horses, of the family Equidæ, having three toes, a median functional hoof with a false hoof on each side.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one. It is believed to be one of the ancestral genera of the Horse family.
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- noun An
extinct pony of thegenus Hipparion.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Into the cleared area came galloping a hipparion, one of the donkey-sized three-toed horses of the Pliocene Epoch.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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This includes such animals as the mastodon, hipparion, and many kinds of deer
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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The hipparion survived into this epoch, but the horse also makes its appearance.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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The discovery of the remains of the hipparion supplied one of the links required by
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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The transitory and singularly small and simple denticle in the horse exemplifies the rudiment of an ancestral structure in the same degree as do the hoofless splint-bones; just as the spurious hoofs dangling therefrom in hipparion are retained rudiments of the functionally developed lateral hoofs in the broader foot of palæotherium.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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If the species of palæothere, paloplothere, anchithere, hipparion, and horse be severally deemed due to remotely and successively repeated acts of creation; the successive going out of such species must have been as miraculous as their coming in.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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In one of the latest examples, the inner splint-bone, answering to the second metacarpal of the pentadactyle foot, supported phalanges and a terminal hoof resembling the corresponding one in hipparion.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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If the alternative -- species by miracle or by law -- be applied to palæotherium, paloplotherium, anchitherium, hipparion, equus,
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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In hipparion this tooth is smaller than in palæotherium, but functional and permanent.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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We saw an animal resembling a deer on one hand, and a tapir on the other, as well as a kind of toed horse or hipparion, and a number of domestic pets all strange to us.
A Trip to Venus John Munro 1889
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