perissodactyl

1. 1.

   placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot

   Synonymsodd-toed ungulateperissodactyl mammal

   Broaderungulate

   Narrowerequinerhinocerostapir

   Part ofPerissodactyla

Other forms of perissodactyl

plural

perissodactyls·

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 perissodactyl

What does perissodactyl mean?

perissodactyl means "placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot".

How many syllables are in perissodactyl?

perissodactyl has 5 syllables: pe-ris-so-dac-tyl. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for perissodactyl?

Close synonyms include odd-toed ungulate, perissodactyl mammal. 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 perissodactyl a common word?

perissodactyl 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.