MUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mus mean? 

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

1. type genus of the Muridae: common house mice; the tips of the upper incisors have a square notch

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Muridae: common house mice; the tips of the upper incisors have a square notch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Mus; Mus

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

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Mus"):

house mouse; Mus musculus (brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide)

Holonyms ("Mus" 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 

A family of the order Rodentia containing 250 genera including the two genera Mus and Rattus, from which the laboratory inbred strains are developed.

(Muridae, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A subspecies of common house mouse (Mus musculus).

(Mus musculus castaneus, NCI Thesaurus)

"Now me mus tuddy my lessin," went on the funny little thing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The strain carries a Y chromosome of Asian Mus musculus origin and a LINE-1 element from Mus spretus, suggesting that up to 6.5% of the genome is Mus spretus in origin.

(C57BL/6 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

The C57BL/10 strain carries a Y chromosome of Asian Mus musculus origin and a LINE-1 element from Mus spretus, suggesting that up to 6.5% of the genome is Mus spretus in origin.

(C57BL/10 Mouse, 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)

Derived by Little (1921) from A Lathrop stocks and separated out before 1937, the C57BL/6 mouse has a black coat and carries a Y chromosome of Asian Mus musculus origin and a LINE-1 element from Mus spretus.

(C57BL/6 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Derived by Little (1921) from A Lathrop stocks and separated out before 1937, the C57BL/10 mouse has a black coat and carries a Y chromosome of Asian Mus musculus origin and a LINE-1 element from Mus spretus.

(C57BL/10 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)