equid

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈɛk.wɪd/

Definition of equid

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

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

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

adj

  1. (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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