cetartiodactyl

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cetartiodactyl (plural cetartiodactyls)

  1. (zoology) Any of a large group of animals, of the clade Cetartiodactyla, including the whales and even-toed ungulates.
    • 2018 March 7, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
      Cetartiodactyls are by far the most populous of the two ungulate groups today, but it wasn’t always so.

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