equid en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈɛk.wɪd/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
An appellativization from Equid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names), or, by surface analysis, Latin equ(us) (“horse”) + -id.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).
Come on, this is Tetrapod Zoology: you knew those asses would be of the equid kind, right?
2013 September 5, Darren Naish, “Fantastic asses”, in Scientific American, New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature America, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2024:The program is derived from what the founders frequently refer to as “56 million years of wisdom” — an allusion to the debut in the fossil record of the equid ancestor of the modern domesticated horse Equus ferus caballus.
2021 March 19, Caity Weaver, “Can We Learn Anything From Horses?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2026-00-00:Much like their equid cousins, the zebras and African wild asses, Przewalski's horses have never been successfully domesticated. […] The Przewalski's horse has 66 chromosomes, the most of any equid species.
2014 February 3, Jason G. Goldman, “10 Things You Didn’t Know About Przewalski’s Horses”, in Scientific American, New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature America, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2024: