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JERBOA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jerboa mean?
• JERBOA (noun)
The noun JERBOA has 1 sense:
1. mouselike jumping rodent
Familiarity information: JERBOA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mouselike jumping rodent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("jerboa" 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 "jerboa"):
typical jerboa (small nocturnal jumping rodent with long hind legs; of arid parts of Asia and northern Africa)
Jaculus jaculus (a variety of jerboa)
Holonyms ("jerboa" is a member of...):
Dipodidae; family Dipodidae (Old World jerboas)
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