HYDROMYINAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hydromyinae mean? 

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

1. water rats of Australia and New Guinea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROMYINAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Water rats of Australia and New Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Hydromyinae; subfamily Hydromyinae

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

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Hydromyinae"):

genus Hydromys; Hydromys (water rats)

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

family Muridae; Muridae (originally Old World rats now distributed worldwide; distinguished from the Cricetidae by typically lacking cheek pouches)

 Context examples 

The fifteen subfamilies are HESPEROMYINAE (New World mice and rats), Cricetinae, Spalacinae, Myospalacinae, Lophiomyinae, Platacanthomyinae, Nesomyinae, Otomyinae, Rhizomyinae, MICROTINAE (Arvicolinae), GERBILLINAE, Dendromurinae, Cricetomyinae, Murinae (Old World mice and rats), and Hydromyinae.

(Muridae, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)