Suilline
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Suilline is an adjective meaning (zoology) Of or relating to the suborder Suina of (especially) pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.
Meaning
(zoology) Of or relating to the suborder Suina of (especially) pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.
More Meanings
- Any artiodactyl of the suborder Suina of pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.
Example Sentences
The temporal fossa has a capacity in its proportions and form more resembling that of carnivores than that of the ordinary suillines.
The Oregon Pliocene has afforded the Suillines, Platygonus Condoni Mh., and Dicotyles Hesperius Mh., besides Rhinoceros Oregonensis Mh.
The genus Platygonus is represented by several species, one of which was very abundant in the Post-Tertiary of North America, and is apparently the last example of a side branch, before the American Suillines culminate in existing Peccaries.
Word Forms
- suillines
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include suiform, sauroid, saurian, sipunculoid, ursine, saimirine.
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