hipparionine

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noun

Any extinct horse of the tribe †Hipparionini.

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Meanings

nounhipparionine (plural hipparionines)

plural hipparionines

  1. Any extinct horse of the tribe †Hipparionini.
adjectivehipparionine (not comparable)
  1. not comparableRelating to the extinct horse tribe †Hipparionini.
  2. not comparableRelating to, or characteristic of the hipparion.

    The hipparionine horses arose in North America during the Middle Miocene and differed significantly from Anchitherium and other similar equids in the development of very high-crowned cheek teeth as a response to the more sclerophyllous, harder vegetation.

    2007, Winfried Henke, Handbook of Paleoanthropology
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