English > artiodactyl mammal: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot. |
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| Synonyms | even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl |
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| Member of | Artiodactyla, order Artiodactyla | 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 |
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| Narrower | camel | cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions |
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| hippopotamus, hippo, river horse, Hippopotamus amphibius | massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa |
| llama | wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump |
| peccary, musk hog | nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America |
| ruminant | Any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments |
| swine | stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals |
| vicuna, Vicugna vicugna | small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller |
| Broader | ungulate, hoofed mammal | Any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically |
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| Opposite | odd-toed ungulate, perissodactyl, perissodactyl mammal | placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot |
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| Spanish | artiodáctilo, artiodáctilos |
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| Catalan | artiodàctil |
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