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suillines

suillines is the plural of suilline.

Meaning of suilline

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...

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Questions about suillines

What is suillines the plural of?
Suillines is the plural of suilline.

Words near suillines in the dictionary

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

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