Caniform vs Cuniform - What's the difference?
caniform | cuniform |
Characteristic of, or relating to the Caniformia.
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 ,
* 2011 , John P. Rafferty (editor), The Cenozoic Era: Age of Mammals ,
* 2013 , Donald R. Prothero, Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology ,
As nouns the difference between caniform and cuniform
is that caniform is any carnivore of the suborder caniformia, which are regarded as dog-like while cuniform is .As an adjective caniform
is characteristic of, or relating to the caniformia.caniform
English
(Caniformia)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)page 73,
- Modern carnivores appeared as well, diverging into the feliforms (cats, hyaenas, and mongooses) and caniforms (dogs, bears, raccoons, weasels, and seals).
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.
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.