equid
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]An appellativization from Equid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names),[1] or, by surface analysis, Latin equ(us) ("horse") + -id .
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (Received Pronunciation , General American ) IPA (key): /ˈɛk.wɪd/
Noun
[edit ]equid (plural equids )
Related terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae
Adjective
[edit ]equid (not comparable )
- 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.
References
[edit ]- ^ "equid, n.", in OED Online Paid subscription required , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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