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eohippus

[ US /ˌioʊˈhɪpəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal

How To Use eohippus In A Sentence

  • The so-called ‘dawn horse’, or Eohippus, was most likely not related to horses at all, but was very like a modern-day hyrax - that is, a rock badger or coney.
  • The first horse, Hyracotherium (= Eohippus), is known from the early Eocene and appears to have been derived from a condylarth.
  • But what gained greatest attention, especially from ranchers in the west, was his discovery in subsequent years of handsome skeletons of four of the progenitors of the horse: eohippus, mesohippus, miohippus and the crucial, determinative merychippus. Centennial
  • The so-called ‘dawn horse’, or Eohippus, was most likely not related to horses at all, but was very like a modern-day hyrax - that is, a rock badger or coney.
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