Definition of Family Equidae

1. Noun. Horses; asses; zebras; extinct animals.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Equidae

family Eleotridae
family Elephantidae
family Elopidae
family Embiotocidae
family Empetraceae
family Emydidae
family Endamoebidae
family Engraulidae
family Enterobacteriaceae
family Entolomataceae
family Entomophthoraceae
family Epacridaceae
family Ephedraceae
family Ephemeridae
family Ephippidae
family Equidae (current term)
family Equisetaceae
family Erethizontidae
family Ericaceae
family Erinaceidae
family Eriocaulaceae
family Erysiphaceae
family Erythroxylaceae
family Eschrichtiidae
family Esocidae
family Euglenaceae
family Euphorbiaceae
family Eurylaimidae
family Exocoetidae
family Fabaceae

Literary usage of Family Equidae

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... wild representatives, but in a zoological sense used as a general term for all the members of the family Equidae. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... but in a zoological sense used as a general term for all the members of the family Equidae. SPECIES The distinctive characteristics of the family, ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Although for the sake of uniformity a family, Equidae, is here separated from its allies, it is quite impossible owing to the full state of our knowledge ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"In a zoological sense, the horse is a vertebrate animal belonging to the class Mammalia, the family Equidae and the genus Equus. In a broad sense, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... unless I specify, it cannot be known whether I am tracing that of the species Equus caballus, or that of the genus Equus,or that of the family Equidae. ..."

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