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Definition of Fissiped
1. Noun. Terrestrial carnivores; having toes separated to the base: dogs; cats; bears; badgers; raccoons.
Definition of Fissiped
1. a. Having the toes separated to the base. [See Aves.]
2. n. One of the Fissipedia.
Definition of Fissiped
1. Adjective. Having the toes separated from each other ¹
2. Noun. An animal that has such toes ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fissiped
1. a mammal that has separated toes [n -S]
Medical Definition of Fissiped
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fissiped
Literary usage of Fissiped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"(Ornith.) Wide-billed birds ; a tribe or fam. in those systems which characterize
birds by their bills. It includes swallows and goat-suckers. fissiped. ..."
2. Organic Evolution: A Text Book by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... possess the carnassial tooth (see page 551) and their derivation from any
known fissiped stock is doubtful. They may well represent an independent line ..."
3. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1879)
"... and is very plain in the mallei of the fissiped carnivora and most ungulates,
appearing as the sharply curved compact neck itself, the remainder being a ..."
4. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"... arrived at from the study of the convolutions,• which latter, in my estimation,
throw much light upon the mutual affinities of the fissiped Carnivora. ..."