Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

equid

/ˈɛk.wɪd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.21 in modern English

Syllables: equid
IPA: /ˈɛk.wɪd/

15

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).

adj

Of or relating to the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).

Example Sentences

"Come on, this is Tetrapod Zoology: you knew those asses would be of the equid kind, right?"
"Much like their equid cousins, the zebras and African wild asses, Przewalski's horses have never been successfully domesticated. […] The Przewalski's horse has 66 chromosomes, the most of any equid species."
"The program is derived from what the founders frequently refer to as “56 million years of wisdom” — an allusion to the debut in the fossil record of the equid ancestor of the modern domesticated horse Equus ferus caballus."

Etymology

An appellativization from Equid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names), or, by surface analysis, Latin equ(us) (“horse”) + -id.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈɛk.wɪd/
British English: /ˈɛk.wɪd/

Inflected Forms

equids (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Equus

Synonyms

equid equine

Questions

How do you pronounce equid?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɛk.wɪd/.
What does equid mean?: Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).
Where does equid come from?: An appellativization from Equid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names), or, by surface analysis, Latin equ(us) (“horse”) + -id.

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