suid

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English

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Etymology

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From the genus name Sus, from Latin sūs (pig), +‎ -id.[1]

Noun

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suid (plural suids)

  1. (zoology) Any of the family Suidae of pigs and related creatures.
    Synonym: suidian
    Hypernym: suilline

Translations

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Adjective

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suid (comparative more suid, superlative most suid)

  1. Of or relating to the family Suidae of pigs and related creatures.
    Synonym: suidian
    Hypernym: suilline
    Hyponym: porcine
    • 1928, H. S. Pearson, “Chinese Fossil Suidæ”, in Palæontologica Sinica, series C (Fossil Vertebrates of China), volume 5, footnote 3, page 62:
      Owing to the kindness of Mr. M. A. Hinton, I have been able to examine at leisure the large collection of recent Suid skulls in the British Museum.
    • 1970, B[ernard] G. F. Weitz, “Methods for Identifying the Blood Meals of Glossina”, in H[ugh] W[addell] Mulligan, editor, The African Trypanosomiases, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, →ISBN, page 419:
      Table 18.1 shows the results obtained by the Haemagglutination-Inhibition Test on ten suid feeds with the anti-warthog system and the converse anti-bushpig system.
    • 2007, A[nna] K[atherine] Behrensmeyer, R[ené] Bobe, Z[eresenay] Alemseged, “Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene”, in René Bobe, Zeresenay Alemseged, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, editors, Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence, Dordrecht: Springer, →ISBN, page 17, column 1:
      In a study by Harris and Cerling (2002), isotopic analysis of the enamel of extant and Neogene suids shows that major components of C4 vegetation (i.e., warm-growing season grasses) were present in extinct suid species from the Turkana Basin deposits of northern Kenya as early as about 7Ma.

References

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  1. ^ suid, n. and adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch zuid.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sœʏ̯t/, /sœit/
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Adverb

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suid

  1. south

Estonian

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Noun

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suid

  1. partitive plural of suu