Equid

Quick meaning: Equid is a noun meaning Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• equids

Synonyms for equid

Depending on context, synonyms include equine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include equine, horse, equoid, donkey, elephantid, perissodactyl.

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