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Definition of Pinnipedia
1. Noun. Seals; sea lions; walruses.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Carnivora, Order Carnivora
Member holonyms: Pinnatiped, Pinniped, Pinniped Mammal, Family Otariidae, Otariidae, Family Phocidae, Phocidae, Family Odobenidae, Odobenidae
Definition of Pinnipedia
1. n. pl. A suborder of aquatic carnivorous mammals including the seals and walruses; -- opposed to Fissipedia.
Definition of Pinnipedia
1. Proper noun. A taxonomic group consisting of three families - Odobenidae (walruses), Otariidae (fur seals and sea lions) and Phocidae (seals). It was formerly classified as its own suborder within order Carnivora, but is now considered a superfamily within Caniformia ("dog-like"), which is a suborder of Carnivora. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Pinnipedia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinnipedia
Literary usage of Pinnipedia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Zoe: A Biological Journal by Townshend Stith Brandegee, Katharine Layne Brandegee (1891)
"Also, Some of the Causes and Results of Polygamy among the pinnipedia by CC
Nutting; the best and most striking example of true polygamy among mammals is ..."
2. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"... pinnipedia THERE would follow here, were it to be included in the present
volume, a chapter on the sea bears, seals, and walruses, which constitute the ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"pinnipedia (Mammalia), The pinnipedia or pinnipeds, embracing the seals and
walruses, are commonly recognized by recent systematic writers as constituting a ..."
4. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by Carl Claus, Adam Sedgwick (1885)
"pinnipedia. Hairy aquatic Mammalia with five-toed fin-like feet, of which the
posterior are directed backwards; with complete dentition ; without caudal fin ..."
5. A Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds in the Department of Geology and by Arthur Smith Woodward (1904)
"pinnipedia. The seals, walruses, and their allies are scarcely repre- Table-oases
sented among fossils ..."
6. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"So of Edentata, 617 of Rodentia, 33 of pinnipedia, The subdivision of the mammals
into these ordera ..."
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