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suilline en · ADJ

Learned borrowing from Latin suīllīnus.

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

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Learned borrowing from Latin suīllīnus.

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 Mammalian Remains of North America, […] (Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; volume VII, second series), Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [F]or the Academy, by J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., page 176:
- 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, Taylor, and Co., […], published 1875, page 511:
- The genus Platygonus is represented by several species, one of which was very abundant in the Post-Tertiary of North America, and is apparently the last example of a side branch, before the American Suillines culminate in existing Peccaries. 1877 August 30, O[thniel] C[harles] Marsh, Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America. An Address Delivered before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Nashville, Tenn., […], →OCLC, page 37:

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