FAMILY MURIDAE

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Meaning:

Originally Old World rats now distributed worldwide; distinguished from the Cricetidae by typically lacking cheek pouches

Synonyms:

family Muridae; Muridae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("family Muridae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "family Muridae"):

genus Mus; Mus (type genus of the Muridae: common house mice; the tips of the upper incisors have a square notch)

genus Micromyx; Micromyx (Old World harvest mice)

Apodemus; genus Apodemus (Old World field mice)

genus Rattus; Rattus (common house rats; upper incisors have a beveled edge)

genus Nesokia; Nesokia (bandicoot rats)

Conilurus; genus Conilurus; genus Notomys; Notomys (jerboa rats)

Hydromyinae; subfamily Hydromyinae (water rats of Australia and New Guinea)

Holonyms ("family Muridae" is a member of...):

Muroidea; superfamily Muroidea (a superfamily of rodents essentially equal to the suborder Myomorpha but with the Dipodidae excluded)