PIKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pika mean? 

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

1. small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

coney; cony; mouse hare; pika; rock rabbit

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

gnawing mammal; lagomorph (relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pika"):

little chief hare; Ochotona princeps (North American pika)

collared pika; Ochotona collaris (similar to little chief hare and may be same species)

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

family Ochotonidae; Ochotonidae (pikas and extinct forms)

 Context examples 

The taxonomic order of mammals which include hares, rabbits and pikas.

(Lagomorpha, NCI Thesaurus)