dawn horse
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dawn horse
First recorded in 1200–50
Example Sentences
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The horses, like the camels, had gone through their developmental history on this continent, the earliest ancestor, the little four-toed "dawn horse" of the Eocene, being likewise the size of a jack-rabbit.
From Project Gutenberg
Eohippus, the dawn horse, is the name given a skeleton found in 1880 in the lower Eocene strata in Wyoming.
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