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US
/ˌioʊˈhɪpəs/
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NOUN
- 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.