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Coniform vs Caniform - What's the difference?

coniform | caniform |

As adjectives the difference between coniform and caniform

is that coniform is having the form of a cone while caniform is characteristic of, or relating to the caniformia.

As a noun caniform is

any carnivore of the suborder caniformia, which are regarded as dog-like.

coniform

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the form of a cone

    • caniform

    English

    (Caniformia)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Characteristic of, or relating to the Caniformia.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any carnivore of the suborder Caniformia, which are regarded as dog-like.
  • * 1997 , Peter D. Ward, The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared , page 73,
    • Modern carnivores appeared as well, diverging into the feliforms (cats, hyaenas, and mongooses) and caniforms (dogs, bears, raccoons, weasels, and seals).
  • * 2011 , John P. Rafferty (editor), The Cenozoic Era: Age of Mammals , page 93,
    • It is representative of a group of early carnivores, the miacids, that were the ancestors of modern caniforms : the canids (that is, the dogs, coyotes, wolves, foxes, and jackals) and a large group made up of the bear, raccoon, and weasel families.
  • * 2013 , Donald R. Prothero, Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology , page 544,
    • Some paleontologists argue that in fact they[extinct nimravids] are closer to caniforms , while others place them as a distant relative of the feliforms.