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Arctoid, a. (n.) Zool.|ˈɑːktɔɪd| Also arctoid. [f. mod.L. Arctoidea neut. pl., f. Gr. ἄρκτος bear (see Arctic a.): see -oid.] Resembling a bear; spec. belonging to, or having the characters of, the division Arctoidea of Carnivora, comprising the bears and allied animals; as n., an animal of this division. Also Arcˈtoidean a.
1869W. H. Flower in Proc. Zool. Soc. 14 Jan. 24 The reproductive organs [of the dogs] belong neither to the Arctoid nor to the æluroid type. Ibid. 30 An arboreal, prehensile-tailed, omnivorous, Procyonine Arctoid. 1885Athenæum 3 Jan. 20/3 The view that the Pinnipedia were evolved from some arctoid, probably ursine, form of land Carnivora. Ibid. 2 May 570/1 The arctoidean carnivorous mammals. 1923Glasgow Herald 27 Mar. 6/2 The polecat..has nothing to do with any cat... It is Arctoid, not Feline. |