tupaiids
tupaiids is the plural of tupaiid.
Meaning of tupaiid
Noun
tupaiid (plural tupaiids)
- Any of the family Tupaiidae of tree shrews.
- Some authors rank tupaiids in a separate order Tupaioidea (Martin, 1966), while others retain them among the Primates (Napier and Napier, 1967) or 1nsectivora (Hill, 1953b).
The uncertainty surrounding tupaiid phylogeny is a consequence of an inadequate fossil record.1987, F. A. Jenkins, Jr., “1: Tree Shrew Locomotion and the Origins of Primate Arborealism”, in John G. Fleagle, editor, Primate Evolution and Human Origins, page 2
- Some authors rank tupaiids in a separate order Tupaioidea (Martin, 1966), while others retain them among the Primates (Napier and Napier, 1967) or 1nsectivora (Hill, 1953b).
Questions about tupaiids
- What is tupaiids the plural of?
- Tupaiids is the plural of tupaiid.
Words near tupaiids in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tupaiids (page history and authors); tupaiid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “tupaiids.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tupaiids. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.