Meaning of hyracine | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or relating to hyraxes.

rare

Examples

“The galeopithecus [sic] unites the bats, the lemurs, and the monkeys, in one natural alliance, as the hyrax unites the rodents and the pachyderms. The proper name for these alliances would be galeopithecine and hyracine […]”

“From out of the early types of the hyracine ungulates—which then possessed the full normal number of teeth in Eutherian mammals; that is to say, three pairs of molars and four pairs of premolars, one pair of canines, and three pairs of incisor teeth in both jaws—developed the elephant order […]”

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