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n. - Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes and some extinct animals.

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  • And 1000 Fossilized Elephants, ranging from woolly mammoths to Loxodonta, Elphas, Sirenia, and Hyracoidea!
  • Ok, we can save a bit on the budget by making most of them Hyracoidea built out of styrofoam or tusks sticking up from the sand, but tweak the lens a bit and nobody'll...
  • Perrissodactyla, Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Lagomorpha, Tubulidentata, Sirenia and Cetacea.
  • In the writings of older naturalists this animal, so singular in its construction, will be found grouped with the horse, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, tapir, coney, and pig, under...
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