Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

suid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.92 in modern English

Syllables: suid
IPA

5

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

adj

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

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."
"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."

Etymology

From the family name translingual Suidae, from the genus name translingual Sus.

Word Breakdown

Root: Suidae, Sus

Inflected Forms

suids (plural) more suid (comparative) most suid (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

swinish

Synonyms

suidian

Questions

What does suid mean?: Any of the family Suidae: a pig or a taxonomically related animal.
Where does suid come from?: From the family name translingual Suidae, from the genus name translingual Sus.

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