hyracotherium

1. 1.

   extinct horse genus; formerly called eohippus

   Synonymsgenus Hyracotherium

   Broadermammal genus

   Part ofEquidae

Other forms of hyracotherium

plural

hyracotheriums·

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 hyracotherium

What does hyracotherium mean?

hyracotherium means "extinct horse genus; formerly called eohippus".

How many syllables are in hyracotherium?

hyracotherium has 6 syllables: hy-ra-co-the-ri-um. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for hyracotherium?

Close synonyms include genus Hyracotherium. 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 hyracotherium a common word?

hyracotherium 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.