Definition of Fissipedia

1. Noun. In some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora.


Definition of Fissipedia

1. n. pl. A division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; -- opposed to Pinnipedia.

Definition of Fissipedia

1. Proper noun. (taxon suborder order Carnivora the land carnivores) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Fissipedia

1. A division of the Carnivora, including the dogs, cats, and bears, in which the feet are not webbed; opposed to Pinnipedia. Origin: NL, fr. L. Fissus (p.p. Of findere to cleave) + pes, pedis, a foot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fissipedia

fissionlike
fissions
fissipalmate
fissipara
fissiparation
fissiparism
fissiparities
fissiparity
fissiparous
fissiparously
fissiparousness
fissipation
fissiped
fissiped mammal
fissipedal
fissipedia
fissipeds
fissirostres
fissive
fissle
fissled
fissles
fissling
fissura
fissura antitragohelicina
fissura cerebri lateralis
fissura choroidea
fissura collateralis

Literary usage of Fissipedia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"We shall deal at present with the land division of the Carnivora, the CARNIVORA Fissipedia as they are generally termed. The name is of course given to them ..."

2. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"Fissipedia. Carnivora with separated digits : a distinct carnassial tooth ... Fissipedia with short face and a reduced number of pre- molar and molar teeth ..."

3. A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere by William Berryman Scott (1913)
"... it would be better to transfer that family to the Fissipedia and include the others in a separate order. Throughout the Paleocene and Eocene epochs the ..."

4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"... or Fissipedia, with sixteen families, three of which are extinct, and PINNIPEDIA with three families. SUBORDER Fissipedia. ..."

5. An Introduction to the Mammalian Dentition by Thomas Wingate Todd (1918)
"The Fissipedia The order Carnivora today comprises two great suborders: the Fissipedia ... Modern Fissipedia are widely divergent in habit and in physical ..."

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