"caviomorph" meaning in All languages combined

See caviomorph on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: caviomorphs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} caviomorph (plural caviomorphs)
  1. Any rodent of the infraorder (sometimes parvorder) Caviomorpha, that unites all South American hystricognaths. Categories (lifeform): Caviomorphs

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for caviomorph meaning in All languages combined (2.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caviomorphs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "caviomorph (plural caviomorphs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Caviomorphs",
          "orig": "en:Caviomorphs",
          "parents": [
            "Rodents",
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Sharon Lynn Vanderlip, The Guinea Pig Handbook, page 11",
          "text": "Cavies are caviomorphs. Caviomorphs are tailless South American rodents that are characterized by having one pair of mammae (teats), four digits on the forefoot, and three digits on the hind foot, as well as special anatomical features of the head and jaws.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Rebecca Stefoff, The Rodent Order, page 21",
          "text": "Platypittamys was a caviomorph that lived in southern South America around 30 million years ago.[…]Today caviomorphs are found in South America, but genetic studies show that they are descended from African rodents.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Larry G. Marshall, “The Geat American Interchange—An Invasion-Induced Crisis for South American Mammals”, in Matthew Nitecki, editor, Biotic Crises in Ecological and Evolutionary Time, page 192",
          "text": "In beds of Deseadan age caviomorphs are represented by 6 families (9 genera), in the Santacrucian by 7 families (17 genera), and in the Hayquerian by 8 families (21 genera) (Marshall et al. In press b).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any rodent of the infraorder (sometimes parvorder) Caviomorpha, that unites all South American hystricognaths."
      ],
      "id": "en-caviomorph-en-noun-V9xZZxY5",
      "links": [
        [
          "rodent",
          "rodent"
        ],
        [
          "infraorder",
          "infraorder"
        ],
        [
          "parvorder",
          "parvorder"
        ],
        [
          "Caviomorpha",
          "Caviomorpha#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "South American",
          "South American"
        ],
        [
          "hystricognath",
          "hystricognath"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "caviomorph"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caviomorphs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "caviomorph (plural caviomorphs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Caviomorphs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Sharon Lynn Vanderlip, The Guinea Pig Handbook, page 11",
          "text": "Cavies are caviomorphs. Caviomorphs are tailless South American rodents that are characterized by having one pair of mammae (teats), four digits on the forefoot, and three digits on the hind foot, as well as special anatomical features of the head and jaws.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Rebecca Stefoff, The Rodent Order, page 21",
          "text": "Platypittamys was a caviomorph that lived in southern South America around 30 million years ago.[…]Today caviomorphs are found in South America, but genetic studies show that they are descended from African rodents.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Larry G. Marshall, “The Geat American Interchange—An Invasion-Induced Crisis for South American Mammals”, in Matthew Nitecki, editor, Biotic Crises in Ecological and Evolutionary Time, page 192",
          "text": "In beds of Deseadan age caviomorphs are represented by 6 families (9 genera), in the Santacrucian by 7 families (17 genera), and in the Hayquerian by 8 families (21 genera) (Marshall et al. In press b).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any rodent of the infraorder (sometimes parvorder) Caviomorpha, that unites all South American hystricognaths."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rodent",
          "rodent"
        ],
        [
          "infraorder",
          "infraorder"
        ],
        [
          "parvorder",
          "parvorder"
        ],
        [
          "Caviomorpha",
          "Caviomorpha#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "South American",
          "South American"
        ],
        [
          "hystricognath",
          "hystricognath"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "caviomorph"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (46b31b8 and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.