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  1. (chiefly botany) Forming nouns from Latin or Greek roots, including certain plant names modelled on Latin sources, and the names of certain dynasties, being suffixed to the name of their progenitors and meaning "descendant(s) of", e.g. Solomonid, Abbasid.
  2. (astronomy) Forming common names of meteors from their apparent constellation of origin.
    The Perseid meteor shower's radiant is in the constellation of Perseus.
  3. (zoology) Forming common names of members of a taxon which has a name ending in -idae.
    A felid is a member of Felidae.



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