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qroqqa commented on the word euarchontoglire
member of the mammalian clade Euarchontoglires, comprising primates plus Glires (rodents and rabbits), and a few minor groups, but not bats
Name derived from Archonta, a formerly hypothesized group covering primates and bats, now disproved, and the Glires (Latin plural of glis "dormouse").
July 8, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word euarchontoglire
Oh, so it was already on Wordie! According to the etymology you provided, the singular of Euarchontoglires is Euarchontoglis.
September 13, 2008
mollusque commented on the word euarchontoglire
Hmm, now if we just find a way to get rid of the extra "o"...
September 13, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word euarchontoglire
What do you mean, lophotrochozoan?
September 13, 2008
mollusque commented on the word euarchontoglire
You removed an "e" with Euarchontoglis, eutherian, but the second "o" prevents it from being a euvocalic panvocalic.
September 13, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word euarchontoglire
The singular should be *euarchontoglis if the plural were formed regularly from it; but back-formation has several analogical options. In this case euarchontoglire has been formed, probably not just by removing the -s (zoologists are too fly for that) but by looking at words such as 'carnivore', 'laurasiathere' (cf. Greek thêr). In fact it's -glire that's used, and *-glis only occurs here on Wordie: no-one else has thought to coin it.
June 10, 2009