artiodactyla

1. 1.

   an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes

   Synonymsorder Artiodactyla

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofEutheria

Other forms of artiodactyla

plural

artiodactylas·

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 artiodactyla

What does artiodactyla mean?

artiodactyla means "an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes".

How many syllables are in artiodactyla?

artiodactyla has 6 syllables: ar-ti-o-dac-ty-la. The stress falls on "dac".

What is another word for artiodactyla?

Close synonyms include order Artiodactyla. 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 artiodactyla a common word?

artiodactyla 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.