MURIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Muridae mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• 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 ("Muridae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("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 

A common name used to describe a subfamily of the Muridae.

(Hamster, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A species of mouse in the Muridae family found in northern Africa, Portugal, Spain, and France.

(Mus spretus, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)