Sentence examples for equid from inspiring English sources
noun
Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine (horse, zebra, ass, mule, etc.)
Simpson takes the view that their ancestry was probably equid and almost certainly hippomorph.
The true ass (Equus asinus), ancestor of the domestic donkey, is the equid of arid North Africa whose range extends south to approximately 6° N latitude.
To settle the matter, the skull of the Grant equid travelled across London to South Kensington to be placed under the expert eye of Alan Gentry, then curator of mammals at the Natural History Museum.
Unlike the equids, they have tended to grow large, with short, stout limbs with little reduction in the digits.
In the equids, distal carpal I (the trapezium) is absent, and the arrangement in the hindfoot is similar.
The equids have a normal hide with a well-developed hairy coat.
In the equids the proximal end remains as a small splint of bone, while the distal end has fused with the tibia.
The social organization of other equids is not as well documented.
Courtship is relatively simple among the social equids.
Early members of the group such as Paleomoropus, from the lower Eocene, resembled contemporary equids.
The gestation period of equids is between 11 and 12 months.
