Orycteropodidae (Noun)
Meaning
Aardvarks.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Aardvarks belong to the mammalian family Orycteropodidae and are the only living members of the order Tubulidentata.
- The unique physical characteristics of the aardvark, a member of the family Orycteropodidae, set it apart from other nocturnal mammals.
- There is only one living genus, Orycteropus, within the family Orycteropodidae, to which the aardvark belongs.
- Orycteropodidae, the family to which aardvarks belong, has undergone relatively little change since the evolution of these unique mammals.
- Fossil records show that the family Orycteropodidae, to which the aardvark belongs, has a long evolutionary history.