FAMILY MURIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Muridae mean? 

• FAMILY MURIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY MURIDAE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FAMILY MURIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY MURIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Muridae; Muridae

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)

 Context examples 

Any of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae.

(Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of rodent in the family muridae.

(Mastomys, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A genus of rodent in the family muridae comprising the multimammate mice.

(Mastomys, NCI Thesaurus)