RODENTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rodentia mean? 

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

1. small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RODENTIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Rodentia; Rodentia

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Rodentia"):

gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)

Myomorpha; suborder Myomorpha (true rats and mice and related rodents)

Hystricomorpha; suborder Hystricomorpha (an order of rodents including: porcupines; guinea pigs; chinchillas; etc.)

Sciuromorpha; suborder Sciuromorpha (large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.)

naked mole rat (fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites)

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

Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

 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)