suid

From the genus name Sus, from Latin sūs (“pig”), +‎ -id.^[1]

suid (plural suids)

1. (zoology) Any of the family Suidae of pigs and related creatures.

   Synonym: suidian

   Hypernym: suilline

suid (comparative more suid, superlative most suid)

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

   Synonym: suidian

   Hypernym: suilline

   Hyponym: porcine

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

     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.

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

     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.

   • 2007, A K Behrensmeyer, R Bobe, Z 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:

     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.

• UIDs, uids, IUDs, UDIs, DUIs, D.U.I.s

From Dutch zuid.

• IPA^(key): /sœʏ̯t/, /sœit/

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suid

1. south

suid

1. partitive plural of suu