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FAMILY CRICETIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters
Synonyms:
Cricetidae; family Cricetidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Cricetidae" is a kind of...):
mammal family (a family of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "family Cricetidae"):
genus Synaptomys; Synaptomys (bog lemmings)
Dicrostonyx; genus Dicrostonyx (pied lemmings)
genus Myopus; Myopus (a genus of Cricetidae)
genus lemmus; Lemmus (lemmings)
lemming (any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution)
genus Meriones; Meriones (a genus of Cricetidae)
Gerbillinae; subfamily Gerbillinae (gerbils)
genus Mesocricetus; Mesocricetus (golden hamsters)
Cricetus; genus Cricetus (type genus of the Cricetidae: Old World hamsters)
genus Phenacomys (North American voles)
Clethrionomys; genus Clethrionomys (a genus of Cricetidae)
Arvicola; genus Arvicola (in some classifications considered synonymous with Microtus)
genus Microtus; Microtus (voles of the northern hemisphere)
genus Pitymys; Pitymys (pine mice)
genus Oryzomys; Oryzomys (rice rats)
genus Neotoma; Neotoma (packrats)
wood-rat; wood rat (any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks))
genus Sigmodon; Sigmodon (American cotton rats)
genus Neofiber; Neofiber (round-tailed muskrat)
genus Ondatra; Ondatra (muskrats)
genus Onychomys; Onychomys (grasshopper mice)
Baiomys; genus Baiomys (pygmy mice)
genus Peromyscus; Peromyscus (New World wood mice)
genus Reithrodontomys; Reithrodontomys (New World harvest mice)
New World mouse (a variety of rodent)
Holonyms ("family Cricetidae" is a member of...):
Myomorpha; suborder Myomorpha (true rats and mice and related rodents)
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