sciuroid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the taxonomic family Sciuridae.
Example Sentences
- "The loss of the internal carotid artery in the sciuroids seems likewise to go back to the early Tertiary. The oldest known sciuroid, Protosciurus (table XII) , stems from the Middle Oligocene [BLACK, 1963) , and the earliest sciuroids presumably evolved from central members of the paramyid group around the transition between the Eocene and Oligocene [WOOD, 1959]."
- "It may also be noted that the fossil record stretches back no farther than the Oligocene on macroscelidoid elephant shrews (Patterson, 1965), also on sciuroids (Black, 1963), and no farther than the Miocene on lorisoids (Walker, 1974) ."
- "These findings are contrary to the opinion that sciuroids are relatively archaic forms, based on their cuspidate dentition."
- "The feet are very sciuroid, and while they are the most generalized rodent feet, they show the distinctive characteristics of the order already firmly fixed, in the peculiar reduction of the pollex, presence of radial sesamoid, characteristic form of astragalus etc."
- "A sciuroid rodent to farmers well known— He is rather destructive to crops— Is apposite, novel and ready to hand As arms of the "Issue of Ops""
- "In studying the early development of the sciuroid rodent Citellus the writer noted the following described conditions which may be of interest to investigators working on that yet unsolved problem of the origin of the vascular system."