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Word: Sciurine
Speech Type: Noun
mid 19th century; earliest use found in Richard Owen (1804–1892), comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. From scientific Latin Sciurus, genus name (Linnaeus Systema naturae (ed. 10, 1758) I. 63): see below) + -ine, after either scientific Latin Sciurini or Sciurinae, former family names (now names respectively of the tribe and subfamily to which squirrels belong)
A sciurine rodent; a squirrel.
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