eohippus
英 [,iːəʊ'hɪpəs]
美[,io'hɪpəs]
- n. 始祖马
- [ 复数 eohippuses ]
英英释义
- 1. earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized 4-toed Eocene animal
英文词源
- Eohippus (n.)
- oldest known genus of the horse family, about the size of a fox and first known from fossil remains found in New Mexico, 1879, Modern Latin, from eo- "earliest" + Greek hippos "horse" (see equine).