Word.ws English Dictionary

perissodactylous

perissodactylous adjective: odd-toed, of or relating to the Perissodactyla.

Adjective

perissodactylous (not comparable)

  1. odd-toed, of or relating to the Perissodactyla.

Origin of perissodactylous

Perissodactyla + -ous

Questions about perissodactylous

What does perissodactylous mean?
Perissodactylous means odd-toed, of or relating to the Perissodactyla.
What part of speech is perissodactylous?
Perissodactylous is an adjective.

Words near perissodactylous in the dictionary

  1. perissityids
  2. perissodactyl
  3. perissodactylate
  4. perissodactylic
  5. perissodactylism
  6. perissodactylous
  7. perissodactyls
  8. perissologic
  9. perissological
  10. perissologies
  11. perissology

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: perissodactylous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “perissodactylous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/perissodactylous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.