sciuroid

1. (zoology) Of or pertaining to the taxonomic family Sciuridae.Examples: "The feet are very sciuroid, and while they are the most generalized rodent feet, they show the distinctive characteristics of the order already firmly fixed, in the peculiar reduction of the pollex, presence of radial sesamoid, characteristic form of astragalus etc."; "A sciuroid rodent to farmers well known— He is rather destructive to crops— Is apposite, novel and ready to hand As arms of the "Issue of Ops""; "In studying the early development of the sciuroid rodent Citellus the writer noted the following described conditions which may be of interest to investigators working on that yet unsolved problem of the origin of the vascular system."

2. (botany) Resembling the tail of a squirrel, as branches which are close and dense, or spikes of grass like barley.Examples: "Tufts large, very laxly cohering, nearly without rhizoids, silky or yellowish green, fainly shining; stem elongate, irregularly divided or prolonged into sciuroid-curved obtuse branches; leaves loosely imbricate, crowded, when dry sub-rugose , when moist patent, short decurrent, indistinctly auriculate, faintly plicate, from concave ovate and gradually acuminate base long cuspidate;"; "Plants dioceious, in habit comparable to Breutelia, Primary stem creeping, naked, secondary stems arcuate, sciuroid, simple, branching or producing stolons."