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sciuroids

sciuroids is the plural of sciuroid.

Meaning of sciuroid

Noun

sciuroid (plural sciuroids)

  1. Any rodent from the family Sciuridae.
    • The loss of the internal carotid artery in the sciuroids seems likewise to go back to the early Tertiary. The oldest known sciuroid, Protosciurus (table XII) , stems from the Middle Oligocene [BLACK, 1963) , and the earliest sciuroids presumably evolved from central members of the paramyid group...1971, Acta Anatomica: Supplementum - Volumes 58-62, page 65

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Questions about sciuroids

What is sciuroids the plural of?
Sciuroids is the plural of sciuroid.

Words near sciuroids in the dictionary

  1. sciurognath
  2. sciurognathous
  3. sciurognaths
  4. sciurognathy
  5. sciuroid
  6. sciuroids
  7. sciuromorph
  8. sciuromorphic
  9. sciuromorphous
  10. sciuromorphs
  11. sciuromorphy

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