Family Orycteropodidae (Noun)
Meaning
Aardvarks.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The family Orycteropodidae is made up of medium-sized burrowing mammals including aardvarks.
- Aardvarks belong to the order Tubulidentata and are part of the family Orycteropodidae.
- Researchers were excited to study the characteristics unique to the family Orycteropodidae and the aardvark's survival habits.
- Some distinctive physical characteristics found within the family Orycteropodidae are also notable features of aardvarks.
- Although other related animals were proposed for classification under the family Orycteropodidae it appears they diverged much earlier in time from the modern aardvark lineage.