“anchithere”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

anchithere

释义

anchithere Palæont.|ˈæŋkɪˈθɪə(r)|
[ad. mod.L. anchithērium (also in Eng. use), f. Gr. ἄγχι near + θηρίον wild beast.]
A fossil animal as large as a small pony, having three toes on each foot, found in the Eocene and Miocene strata; regarded evolutionally as an ancestor of the horse, and as forming a link between carnivora with toes and herbivora with hoofs.
1879Le Conte Elem. Geol. 509 The Miohippus of the United States and the nearly allied Anchithere of Europe, more horse-like than the last.1881Lubbock in Nature No. 618. 403 Huxley has traced up the genealogy of the horse to the Miocene Anchitherium.

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