PITYMYS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Pine mice

Synonyms:

genus Pitymys; Pitymys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Pitymys" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Pitymys"):

pine mouse; pine vole; Pitymys pinetorum (short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States)

Holonyms ("Pitymys" is a member of...):

Cricetidae; family Cricetidae (mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters)