Zoology. having an even number of toes or digits on each foot.
n. 名词 noun
a hoofed, even-toed mammal of the order Artiodactyla, comprising the pigs, hippopotamuses, camels, deer, giraffes, pronghorns, sheep, goats, antelope, and cattle.
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In the Miocene the evolution of the two-toed artiodactyl foot was well-nigh completed.
Or, to put it more definitely: hoofed animals are divided into two groups, even-toed (artiodactyl) and odd-toed (perissodactyl).
The Artiodactyl group must have quickly branched in turn, as we find very primitive hogs and camels before the end of the Eocene.
The great group is now usually divided into those that are odd-toed (Perissodactyl) and those that are even-toed (Artiodactyl).
One leading to the existing perissodactyl foot, and the other, apparently later, resulting in the artiodactyl type.