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  • noun zoology Any of the family Suidae of pigs and related creatures.

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Examples

  • (Impersonation is called "suid" in Unix parlance.)

    TWiki.Codev The contributing authors of TWiki 2010

  • Those doctors should be suid or something....... that can't be legal to withóld treatment like that.

    Obituary’ or The one left behind: The Booth Gardner visit. Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • This is problematical however as the type genus for this group, Palaeochoerus from Oligocene-Miocene Africa and Europe, almost certainly is a suid proper and not a peccary, Old World or otherwise.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Peccaries are omnivores, though they mostly eat vegetation (predominantly roots, fruits and tubers), and the suid-like rhinarial disk they have is obviously great for rooting in soil.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • * A large extinct Pleistocene suid, Celebochoerus heekereni, was also endemic to Sulawesi, but so far as we know was not related to either babirusas or Sus celebensis.

    The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas Darren Naish 2006

  • Peccaries are omnivores, though they mostly eat vegetation (predominantly roots, fruits and tubers), and the suid-like rhinarial disk they have is obviously great for rooting in soil.

    More on what I saw at the zoo Darren Naish 2006

  • * A large extinct Pleistocene suid, Celebochoerus heekereni, was also endemic to Sulawesi, but so far as we know was not related to either babirusas or Sus celebensis.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • This is problematical however as the type genus for this group, Palaeochoerus from Oligocene-Miocene Africa and Europe, almost certainly is a suid proper and not a peccary, Old World or otherwise.

    Why putting your hand in a peccary’s mouth is a really bad idea Darren Naish 2006

  • Since the suid mode has been previously examined in the password section, we merely indicate some suid solutions here.

    Phrack Issue #18 (Crimson Death's Issue) 1988

  • To compensate for this security threat, writable suid files should be sought out and eliminated by the system administrator.

    Phrack Issue #18 (Crimson Death's Issue) 1988

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