equid

English

Etymology

An appellativization from Equid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names), or, by surface analysis, Latin equ(us) (“horse”) +‎ -id.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛk.wɪd/

Noun

equid (plural equids)

2. Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).

Hyponyms

• See Thesaurus:equid

Related terms

• Equus

Translations

any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬科動物 / 马科动物 (mǎkēdòngwù)

• Dutch: paardachtige (nl) m or f
• Portuguese: equídeo (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: ekvid m

Adjective

equid (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).
   • 2013 September 5, Darren Naish, “Fantastic asses”, in Scientific American‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature America, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 July 2024:

     Come on, this is Tetrapod Zoology: you knew those asses would be of the equid kind, right?

   • 2014 February 3, Jason G. Goldman, “10 Things You Didn’t Know About Przewalski’s Horses”, in Scientific American‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature America, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 June 2024:

     Much like their equid cousins, the zebras and African wild asses, Przewalski's horses have never been successfully domesticated. […] The Przewalski's horse has 66 chromosomes, the most of any equid species.

   • 2021 March 19, Caity Weaver, “Can We Learn Anything From Horses?”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2026-00-00:

     The program is derived from what the founders frequently refer to as “56 million years of wisdom” — an allusion to the debut in the fossil record of the equid ancestor of the modern domesticated horse Equus ferus caballus.