suilline
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin suīllīnus.[1]
Adjective
[edit]suilline (comparative more suilline, superlative most suilline)
Translations
[edit]of or relating to pigs — see porcine
Noun
[edit]suilline (plural suillines)
- Any artiodactyl of the suborder Suina of pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.
- 1869, Joseph Leidy, “Elotherium Mortoni”, in The Extinct Mammalian Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska. Including an Account of Some Allied Forms from Other Localities, Together with a Synopsis of the Mammalian Remains of North America, […] (Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; volume VII, second series), Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [F]or the Academy, by J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., page 176:
- The temporal fossa has a capacity in its proportions and form more resembling that of carnivores than that of the ordinary suillines.
- 1874, James D[wight] Dana, Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special Reference to American Geological History, […], 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Co., […], published 1875, page 511:
- The Oregon Pliocene has afforded the Suillines, Platygonus Condoni Mh., and Dicotyles Hesperius Mh., besides Rhinoceros Oregonensis Mh.
- 1877 August 30, O[thniel] C[harles] Marsh, Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America. An Address Delivered before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Nashville, Tenn., […], →OCLC, page 37:
- 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.
References
[edit]- ^ “suilline, adj. and n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.