artiodactyl

1. 1.

   of or relating to or belonging to mammals of the order Artiodactyla

   Synonymsartiodactylouseven-toed

   zoology

Other forms of artiodactyl

plural

artiodactyls·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about artiodactyl

What does artiodactyl mean?

artiodactyl means "placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in artiodactyl?

artiodactyl has 5 syllables: ar-ti-o-dac-tyl. The stress falls on "dac". In IPA it is /ˌɑɹtioʊˈdæktəl/.

What is another word for artiodactyl?

Close synonyms include even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl mammal, artiodactylous, even-toed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is artiodactyl a common word?

artiodactyl is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.