equid

noun
/ˈɛk.wɪd/US

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.

Definitions

  1. Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass,…

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

  2. Of or relating to the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass,…

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

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for equid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA