suid

plural suids

1. biologyAny of the family Suidae: a pig or a taxonomically related animal.

   Synonyms: suidian

comparative more suid · superlative most suid

1. Of or relating to the family Suidae of pigs and related creatures.

   Owing to the kindness of Mr. M. A. Hinton, I have been able to examine at leisure the large collection of recent Suid skulls in the British Museum.

   1928, H. S. Pearson, “Chinese Fossil Suidæ”, in Palæontologica Sinica, series C (Fossil Vertebrates of China), volume 5, footnote 3, page 62

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   Table 18.1 shows the results obtained by the Haemagglutination-Inhibition Test on ten suid feeds with the anti-warthog system and the converse anti-bushpig system.

   1970, B[ernard] G. F. Weitz, “Methods for Identifying the Blood Meals of Glossina”, in H[ugh] W[addell] Mulligan, editor, The African Trypanosomiases, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, →ISBN, page 419

   In a study by Harris and Cerling (2002), isotopic analysis of the enamel of extant and Neogene suids shows that major components of C₄ vegetation (i.e., warm-growing season grasses) were present in extinct suid species from the Turkana Basin deposits of northern Kenya as early as about 7Ma.

   2007, A[nna] K[atherine] Behrensmeyer, R[ené] Bobe, Z[eresenay] Alemseged, “Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene”, in René Bobe, Zeresenay Alemseged, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, editors, Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence, Dordrecht: Springer, →ISBN, page 17, column 1

   Synonyms: suidian