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sciurid

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sci·u·rid  (sy-rd)
adj.
Of, belonging to, or resembling the Sciuridae, a family of rodents that includes the squirrels and related mammals.
n.
A sciurid rodent.

[From New Latin Sciridae, family name, from Latin scirus, squirrel; see squirrel.]

sciu·rine (-rn) adj.
sciu·roid (sy-roid, s-yroid) adj.


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