CRICETUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cricetus mean? 

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

1. type genus of the Cricetidae: Old World hamsters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRICETUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Cricetidae: Old World hamsters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cricetus; genus Cricetus

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

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Cricetus"):

hamster (short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches)

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

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

 Context examples 

Any member of the subfamily cricetinae and the genuses Mesocricetus, Phodopus, Cricetus, Cricetulus, Allocricetulus, Cansumys and Tscherskia.

(Hamster, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Four of the more common genera are Cricetus, CRICETULUS, MESOCRICETUS, and PHODOPUS.

(Hamster, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)