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- noun zoology Any member of the Miacidae.
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The common ancestor of feliforms and caniforms was the miacid.
chained_bear commented on the word miacid
"Of, relating to, or designating the family Miacidae of extinct small carnivorous mammals, known from Palaeocene and Eocene fossils in North America." (OED)
September 5, 2008