sciuroid

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any rodent from the family Sciuridae.

   “It may also be noted that the fossil record stretches back no farther than the Oligocene on macroscelidoid elephant shrews (Patterson, 1965), also on sciuroids (Black, 1963), and no farther than the Miocene on lorisoids (Walker, 1974) .”

2. sıfat 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.”

3. sıfat Resembling the tail of a squirrel, as branches which are close and dense, or spikes of grass like barley.

   “Plants dioceious, in habit comparable to Breutelia, Primary stem creeping, naked, secondary stems arcuate, sciuroid, simple, branching or producing stolons.”