one-toed

"They are not for one-toed people, Mma, " she said disapprovingly.

Blue Shoes And Happiness Smith, Alexander McCall 2006

No wonder that the diseased, the deformed, the blind, the one-toed, the twelve-toed, and monstrous parts and organs are the rule rather than the exception.

An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China Emily Bronson Conger

As we have learned, a modern horse is described by comparative anatomy as a one-toed descendant of remote five-toed ancestors.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

To produce modern horses and zebras from these nearer ancestors, few additional changes in the structure of the feet are necessary, for the lateral toes need only to become a little more reduced and the middle one to enlarge slightly to give the one-toed limb of modern types, with its splint-like vestiges still in evidence to show that the ancestor's foot comprised more of these terminal elements.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

Through a long period of development, the present day one-toed horse descended from this many-toed primitive horse.

Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study Thomas Washington Talley

But whereas all the individual titanotheres finally died out, leaving no descendants, a number of the three-toed horses did leave descendants, and these descendants, constantly changing as the ages went by, finally developed into the highly specialized one-toed horses, asses, and zebras of to-day.

II. Biological Analogies in History 1913

And, most important of all, Professor Marsh has discovered a series of mammalian remains, occurring in successive geological epochs, which are held to represent beyond cavil the actual line of descent of the modern horse; tracing the lineage of our one-toed species back through two and three toed forms, to an ancestor in the eocene or early tertiary that had four functional toes and the rudiment of a fifth.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

The first one-toed horse, Pliohippus, about forty inches high at the shoulder.

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

"We know, for example, that there has existed a more or less complete chain of beings from monad to man, that the one-toed horse had a four-toed ancestor, that man has descended from an unknown ape-like form somewhere in the Tertiary."

Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893

We have been able to trace the great modern one-toed horses, zebras, and asses, with their complicated pattern of grinding-teeth back by quite gradual steps (represented by the bones and teeth of fossil kinds of horses), to smaller three-toed animals with simpler tuberculated teeth, and even, without any marked break in the series, to a small Eocene animal

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888