ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SCIURINE
From Latin sciūrus, from Greek skiouros squirrel, from skia a shadow + oura a tail.
WHAT DOES SCIURINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Definition of sciurine in the English dictionary
The definition of sciurine in the dictionary is of, relating to, or belonging to the Sciuridae, a family of rodents inhabiting most parts of the world except Australia and southern South America: includes squirrels, marmots, and chipmunks. Other definition of sciurine is any sciurine animal.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCIURINE»
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Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories
Paramts. An interesting peculiar extinct genus of gnawers of the sciurine family is
indicated by a number of specimens, consisting of fragments of lower jaws with
teeth, which were discovered by Dr. Carter, in the summer of 1871, in the Tertiary
...
2
Contributions to the Extinct Vertebrate Fauna of the Western ...
Small quadrupeds with clawed toes. Teeth consisting of two long curved incisors
in each jaw; no canines, and the molars separated from the former by a wide
interval. PARAMYS. An interesting peculiar extinct genus of gnawers of the
sciurine ...
3
The Tertiary Record of Rodents in North America
The skeleton of the earliest Sciurine from the Chadronian of North America is
nearly identical to that of Recent Sciurus (Emry and Thorington, 1982). Vianey-
Liaud (1974) described the earliest sciurid skeleton from Europe (middle
Oligocene) ...
Viewing the ludicrous 13 antics of these lusory sciurine burrowing rodents, in
their 14 circumcursations, or perched, a la homo upon the apices of their 15
coniform tumulosities incessitously allatrating, one cannot control 16 his risibles.
17 The ...
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The Annals and Magazine of Natural History
... turn to the Murine or Sciurine groups, I do not find a single example in which,
combined with other characters peculiar to those groups, the descending ramus
of the lower jaw is not thrown out from the under side of the alveolar portion.
6
Acta zoologica Cracoviensia
Plate XIII Sciurine indet. Podleeice. No. MF/1095/2. IM1-', x 12 Schirme indet.
Podleeice. Ko. MF/1095/8. RP4. xl2 Sciurine indet. Podleeice. No. MF/1095/9.
LMi-a. x 12 Sciurine indet. Podleeice. No. MF/1095/10. RMi_s. x 12 Sciurine indet
.
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Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business ...
In concluding these general remarks on the form of the Sciurine molar, 1 repeat
what has already been stated, \iz., that in perfectly brachydont Sciurine teeth the
cusps tend towards a longitudinal arrangement—two marginal series in the lower
...
Zoological Society of London, 1893
8
The Comparative Reception of Darwinism
and-disuse hypothesis: "We know of no changes in progress in the Island of
Madagascar, necessitating a special quest of wood-boring larvae by small
quadrupeds of the Lemurine or Sciurine types of organization. Birds, fruits, and
insects ...
9
The Faber Pocket Guide to Britten
... Pam Wheeler, whose uncommonly sciurine memories at the Britten-Pears
Library are a rich resource. Its Librarian, Nicholas Clark, and Philip Reed have
also been good enough to answer particularly recondite questions. Many of their
...
10
A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, ...
The combination keeps her from being merely gossipy, like a garrulous woman
writing fiction, or from reproducing all that she has found, like a sciurine scholar to
whom a book is a place to hide his hoard. Miss Chute has in fact quietly ...
Arthur Krystal, Wystan Hugh Auden, 2001
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCIURINE»
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sciurine is used in the context of the following news items.
Snapchat's billion dollar buyout part two: the Googling
Moving languidly with the ease of a person who has more money than most small countries, the sciurine man opposite leans forward. He smiles the small, ... «TechRadar UK, Nov 13»
'Flying squirrel' Gabrielle Douglas wins gymnastics gold
It's really not human - perhaps it's sciurine, for the flying squirrel landed it emphatically. Her floor was not only good, it was jolly, too. She was already high on the ... «The Australian, Aug 12»
