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–noun

the earliest known horse, a member of the extinct genus Hyracotherium (Eohippus), from the early Eocene Epoch of the Northern Hemisphere; a terrier-sized herbivore having four hoofed toes on each forefoot and three on each hind foot, and low-crowned teeth.

Also called dawn horse, hyracotherium, hy⋅ra⋅co⋅there.

Origin:
1875–80; < NL, equiv. to eo- eo- + Gk híppos horse

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e·o·hip·pus (ē'ō-hĭp'əs)

n. Hyracotherium.

[New Latin : eo- + Greek hippos, horse; see ekwo- in Indo-European roots.]

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eohippus

"oldest known genus of the horse family," 1879, from Mod.L., from Gk. eos "dawn" (from PIE *ausus, cognate with Mod.Eng. east) + hippos "horse." Piltdown Man, before exposed as a fraud, was known as Eoanthropus.

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