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sciuroid

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sci⋅u⋅roid

  [sahy-yoor-oid]
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–adjective
1. sciurine.
2. Botany. resembling a squirrel's tail, as the spikes of certain grasses.
Origin:
1890–95; < L sciūr(us) squirrel + -oid
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sci·u·rid   (sī'yŏŏ-rĭd')   
adj.  Of, belonging to, or resembling the Sciuridae, a family of rodents that includes the squirrels and related mammals.
n.  A sciurid rodent.

[From New Latin Sciūridae, family name, from Latin sciūrus, squirrel; see squirrel.]
sci'u·rine (-rīn') adj., sci'u·roid (sī'yŏŏ-roid', sī-yŏŏr'oid) adj.
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