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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of three-toed horses occurring in the Miocene deposits of North America, and distinguished from the European Pliocene genus Hipparion by the structure of the teeth, the more slender construction of the long bones of the limbs and feet, and the relatively greater reduction of the lateral digits.

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