equid
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 5
Definition of equid
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).
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noun
- Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).
adj
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(not-comparable)Of or relating to the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).
“Come on, this is Tetrapod Zoology: you knew those asses would be of the equid kind, right?”
“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.”
“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.”
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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.
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