Definition of Suidae

1. Noun. Pigs; hogs; boars.

Exact synonyms: Family Suidae
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Artiodactyla, Order Artiodactyla
Member holonyms: Swine, Genus Sus, Sus, Babyrousa, Genus Babyrousa, Genus Phacochoerus, Phacochoerus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suidae

Sudovians
Sue
Suebi
Sues
Suevi
Suez
Suez Canal
Suez Canal Zone
Suffolky
Sufi
Sufism
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugriva
Suharto
Suidae (current term)
Suifenhe
Suillus
Suillus albivelatus
Suisse
Sukarno
Sukhoi
Sukhum
Sukhumi
Sukkos
Sukkot
Sukkoth
Suksdorfia violaceae
Suku
Sukuma

Literary usage of Suidae

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

1. Luther's Pastors: The Reformation in the Ernestine Countrysideby Susan C. Karant-Nunn by Susan C. Karant-Nunn (1979)
"Evolution of the Plio-Pleistocene African Suidae. JM HARRIS AND TD WHITE. Vol. 69, pt. 2, 128 pp., 135 figs., 18 plates. 1979. $12.00. ..."

2. Scientific Papers and Addresses by George Rolleston, Edward Burnett Tylor (1884)
"Sti» andamanensis, on the other hand, and, I am inclined to think, one or two other of the Asiatic Suidae, show, from a precisely opposite cause, ..."

3. Extemporary Speech in Antiquity: A Dissertation by Hazel Louise Brown (1914)
"... declares that the use of "constent" in "On the sources of Suidas and the trustworthiness of his accounts see Daub, A.: De Suidae ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The stomach is simple or somewhat complex, and the placenta diffused. The Suidae include the Old World pigs (Sumac) and the American peccaries ..."

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