sciuroid

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any rodent from the family Sciuridae.
    — The loss of the internal carotid artery in the sciuroids seems likewise to go back to the early Tertiary. The oldest known sciuroid, Protosciurus (table XII) , stems from the Middle Oligocene [BLACK, 1963) , and the earliest sciuroids presumably evolved from central members of the paramyid group around the transition between the Eocene and Oligocene [WOOD, 1959].
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to the taxonomic family Sciuridae.
    — The feet are very sciuroid, and while they are the most generalized rodent feet, they show the distinctive characteristics of the order already firmly fixed, in the peculiar reduction of the pollex, presence of radial sesamoid, characteristic form of astragalus etc.
  2. Resembling the tail of a squirrel, as branches which are close and dense, or spikes of grass like barley.
    — Tufts large, very laxly cohering, nearly without rhizoids, silky or yellowish green, fainly shining; stem elongate, irregularly divided or prolonged into sciuroid-curved obtuse branches; leaves loosely imbricate, crowded, when dry sub-rugose , when moist patent, short decurrent, indistinctly auriculate, faintly plicate, from concave ovate and gradually acuminate base long cuspidate;

词形变化

sciuroids plural more sciuroid comparative most sciuroid superlative

词源

词源 1
From translingual Sciurus + -oid.
词源 2
From translingual Sciurus + -oid.
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