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Definition of Sciuroid
1. a. Resembling the tail of a squirrel; -- generally said of branches which are close and dense, or of spikes of grass like barley.
Definition of Sciuroid
1. Adjective. (zoology) Resembling a squirrel. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) Resembling the tail of a squirrel, as branches which are close and dense, or spikes of grass like barley. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sciuroid
1. resembling a squirrel [adj]
Medical Definition of Sciuroid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sciuroid
Literary usage of Sciuroid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1905)
"... (2) several progressive and several primitive characters shared by one or
another of the remaining sciuroid families; and from which it differs in the ..."
2. Contributions by Dept. of Anatomy, University of Minnesota Dept. of Anatomy, University of Minnesota (1916)
"In studying the early development of the sciuroid rodent Citellus the writer
noted the following described conditions which ..."
3. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1892)
"In this way the same animal may be called by several different appellations, and
we may speak of the gray squirrel as such or as a sciuroid, rodent, mammal, ..."
4. Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin. by University of Wisconsin (1896)
"... irregularly divided or prolonged into sciuroid- curved obtuse branches: leaves
loosely imbricate, crowded, when dry sub- rugose, when moist patent, ..."
5. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1909)
"Rodentia more numerous and diversified; the family relationships are uncertain,
but include (a) with sciuroid teeth, 2 genera; ..."
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