CRICETIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cricetidae mean? 

• CRICETIDAE (noun)
  The noun CRICETIDAE has 1 sense:

1. mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters

  Familiarity information: CRICETIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRICETIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cricetidae; family Cricetidae

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

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Cricetidae"):

genus Pitymys; Pitymys (pine mice)

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 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 ("Cricetidae" is a member of...):

Myomorpha; suborder Myomorpha (true rats and mice and related rodents)

 Context examples 

Any member of four genera of the rodent family Cricetidae; short-tailed Old World burrowing rodents with large cheek pouches.

(Hamster, NCI Thesaurus)