单词 | suid |
释义 | suidn.adj. Zoology. A. n. An artiodactyl mammal of the swine family Suidae; a pig, hog, or boar. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [adjective] > of or relating to or having the nature of a swine swinelyeOE porcine?a1425 swinishc1450 aprine1519 suillary1762 suilline1853 suid1864 suidian1880 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [noun] > group Suiformes (hippos and pigs) > family Suidae (swine) swineOE suilline1853 suid1864 suidian1880 pig1889 1864 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts 37 163 The nose is thus in all these groups, from the Elephant to the lowest of the Suids or Hog-group, not merely a nose, but an organ of special power. 1957 P. J. Darlington Zoogeogr. vi. 403 Fossil suids..are known only from the main part of the Old World. 1980 E. Afr. Med. Jrnl. 57 333 G. brevipalpis fed mostly on suids. 2009 F. Lamarque et al. Human-Wildlife Conflict in Afr. ii. 34 Buffalo, tragelaphs, wild suids and wildebeest were most severely affected [with rinderpest]. B. adj. Of or relating to pigs, hogs, or boars. ΚΠ 1928 H. S. Pearson in Palæontologica Sinica C. 5 v. 62 I have been able to examine at leisure the large collection of recent Suid skulls in the British Museum. 1970 B. G. F. Weitz in H. W. Mulligan Afr. Trypanosomiases xviii. 419 Table 18.1 shows the results obtained by the Haemagglutination-Inhibition Test on ten suid feeds. 2007 A. K. Behrensmeyer et al. in R. Bobe et al. Hominin Environments in E. Afr. Pliocene i. 17/1 Major components of C4 vegetation..were present in extinct suid species from the Turkana Basin deposits. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1864 |
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