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suilline

suilline adjective: of or relating to the suborder Suina of (especially) pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.

Adjective

suilline (comparative more suilline, superlative most suilline)

  1. Of or relating to the suborder Suina of (especially) pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.

Noun

suilline (plural suillines)

  1. Any artiodactyl of the suborder Suina of pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.
    • The temporal fossa has a capacity in its proportions and form more resembling that of carnivores than that of the ordinary suillines.1869, Joseph Leidy, “Elotherium Mortoni”, in The Extinct Mammalian Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska. Including an Account of Some Allied Forms from Other Localities, Together with a Synopsis of the...
    • The Oregon Pliocene has afforded the Suillines, Platygonus Condoni Mh., and Dicotyles Hesperius Mh., besides Rhinoceros Oregonensis Mh.1874, James D[wight] Dana, Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special Reference to American Geological History, […], 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Ivison, Blakeman...

Forms of suilline

Adjective
comparativemore suilline
superlativemost suilline
Noun
pluralsuillines

Origin of suilline

Learned borrowing from Latin suīllīnus.

Questions about suilline

What does suilline mean?
Suilline means of or relating to the suborder Suina of (especially) pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.
What part of speech is suilline?
Suilline can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near suilline in the dictionary

  1. Suihua
  2. Suijin
  3. suikerbos
  4. suillage
  5. suillages
  6. suilline
  7. suillines
  8. suilloid
  9. suilloids
  10. suilysin
  11. suimate

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