suilline

Learned borrowing from Latin suīllīnus.^[1]

suilline (comparative more suilline, superlative most suilline)

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

   Hyponyms: porcine, suid, suidian

suilline (plural suillines)

1. Any artiodactyl of the suborder Suina of pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.

   Hyponyms: suid, suidian

   • 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.: or the Academy, by J B Lippincott & Co., page 176:

     The temporal fossa has a capacity in its proportions and form more resembling that of carnivores than that of the ordinary suillines.

   • 1874, James D 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 Oregon Pliocene has afforded the Suillines, Platygonus Condoni Mh., and Dicotyles Hesperius Mh., besides Rhinoceros Oregonensis Mh.

   • 1877 August 30, O C 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:

     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.