perissodactyl mammal

Questions about perissodactyl mammal

What does perissodactyl mammal mean?

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

What is another word for perissodactyl mammal?

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

perissodactyl mammal 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.