eohippus
See also: Eohippus
English
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Etymology
[edit]Originally a genus name, Eohippus, formed in New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).
Pronunciation
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[edit]eohippus (plural eohippi or eohippuses)
- An extinct early Eocene mammal, Hyracotherium leporinum, ancestral to the modern horse.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 61:
- An eohippus may "evolve" into a horse, but when we say that a society of hunters and gatherers evolves into a farming village, we are using the word "evolves" as a metaphor for a process of directional change.
