Definitions
hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck
Word origin
An appellativization from Equid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names), or, by surface analysis, Latin equ(us) (“horse”) + -id.
Used in a sentence
“Come on, this is Tetrapod Zoology: you knew those asses would be of the equid kind, right?”
“Much like their equid cousins, the zebras and African wild asses, Przewalski's horses have never been successfully domesticated. […] The Przewalski's horse has 66 chromosomes, the most of any equid species.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Horse-family animal”5 letters
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