Artiodactyls is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Artiodactyls meaning
plural of artiodactyl
Using Artiodactyls
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of artiodactyl
- In the example corpus, artiodactyls often appears in combinations such as: artiodactyls have, artiodactyls were, of artiodactyls.
Context around Artiodactyls
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Artiodactyls
- In this selection, "artiodactyls" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, terrestrial, food, different, began, communicate and worldwide stand out and add context to how "artiodactyls" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and other artiodactyls communicate while and as ancestral artiodactyls. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "artiodactyls" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with artiodactyls
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Humans have introduced different artiodactyls worldwide as hunting animals. (9 words)
Conversely, many artiodactyls have declined significantly in their population, and some were even eradicated. (14 words)
The first toe is missing in modern artiodactyls, and can only be found in now extinct genera. (17 words)
While the two orders of ungulates colloquial names are based on the number of toes of their members ("odd-toed" for the perissodactyls and "even-toed" for the terrestrial artiodactyls), it is not an accurate reason they are grouped. (39 words)
Palagi says more research should be done to investigate how other animals, particularly the mammals more closely to related to dolphins like deer, hippos, and other artiodactyls, communicate while playing. (30 words)
Although the specific construction of the talus supported a close relationship between artiodactyls and cetaceans, the question of whether the even-toed ungulates are paraphyletic was not answered. (28 words)
Example sentences (15)
While most artiodactyls were taking over the niches left behind by several extinct perissodactyls, one lineage of artiodactyls began to venture out into the seas.
Palagi says more research should be done to investigate how other animals, particularly the mammals more closely to related to dolphins like deer, hippos, and other artiodactyls, communicate while playing.
Although the specific construction of the talus supported a close relationship between artiodactyls and cetaceans, the question of whether the even-toed ungulates are paraphyletic was not answered.
As an adaptation to the indigestible plant food, artiodactyls have some peculiarities of the digestive tract developed which are especially strong in ruminants.
Conversely, many artiodactyls have declined significantly in their population, and some were even eradicated.
Humans have introduced different artiodactyls worldwide as hunting animals.
In addition, many smaller artiodactyls have a very flexible body, contributing to their speed by increasing their stride length.
Nevertheless, artiodactyls were far from dominant at that time: the perissodactyls were much more successful and far more numerous.
Senses Their environment primarily serves a sense of smell, which is very well developed in artiodactyls, as with most mammals.
Teeth The canines of Suinas develop into tusks The dentition of artiodactyls varies between species; it can, however, discern two trends.
Terrestrial artiodactyls have a paraxonic foot meaning that the weight is distributed on the third and the fourth toe on all legs.
The first toe is missing in modern artiodactyls, and can only be found in now extinct genera.
Their characteristics became more general, and they lost those that distinguished them as camelids; hence, they were classified as ancestral artiodactyls.
While the two orders of ungulates colloquial names are based on the number of toes of their members ("odd-toed" for the perissodactyls and "even-toed" for the terrestrial artiodactyls), it is not an accurate reason they are grouped.
With peccaries, llamas and deceit deer, the South American artiodactyls, compared to the other continents, has remained poor in species.
Common combinations with artiodactyls
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- artiodactyls have 4×
- artiodactyls were 2×
- of artiodactyls 2×
- artiodactyls and 2×
- terrestrial artiodactyls 2×