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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hyracotherium /ˌhʌɪrəkə(ʊ)ˈθɪərɪəm/

▶noun the earliest fossil ancestor of the horse, a small forest animal of the Eocene epoch with four toes on the front feet and three on the back.

– origin mod. L.: from hyraco- (combining form from hyrax) + Gk thērion ‘wild animal’.

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