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macroscélide

French, noun

macroscélide is a French masculine noun meaning “macroscelid; elephant shrew” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, macroscélidé is a different word: “elephant shrew (animal of the order Macroscelidea)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Taxon de mammifères afrothériens, petits insectivores d'Afrique qui ont une trompe”.

What does macroscélide mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinemacroscelid; elephant shrew

noun

as macroscélidé
  1. 1

    masculineelephant shrew (animal of the order Macroscelidea)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Taxon de mammifères afrothériens, petits insectivores d'Afrique qui ont une trompe.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of macroscélide

  • macroscélidés plural
  • macroscélides plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).