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GERBILLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gerbille mean?
• GERBILLE (noun)
The noun GERBILLE has 1 sense:
1. small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping
Familiarity information: GERBILLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
gerbil; gerbille
Hypernyms ("gerbille" is a kind of...):
gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gerbille"):
jird (gerbil of northern Africa)
Meriones unguiculatus; tamarisk gerbil (a gerbil that is popular as a pet)
Meriones longifrons; sand rat (southern European gerbil)
Holonyms ("gerbille" is a member of...):
Gerbillinae; subfamily Gerbillinae (gerbils)
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