GERBILLINAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gerbillinae mean? 

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

1. gerbils

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GERBILLINAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gerbils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Gerbillinae; subfamily Gerbillinae

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

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Gerbillinae"):

genus Gerbillus; Gerbillus (type genus of the Gerbillinae: typical gerbils)

gerbil; gerbille (small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping)

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

Cricetidae; family Cricetidae (mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters)

 Context examples 

A rodent belonging to subfamily Gerbillinae, Meriones unguiculatus.

(Mongolian Gerbil, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Any of the small mammals belonging to the Gerbillinae subfamily.

(Gerbil, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A small mammal belonging to the Gerbillinae subfamily, this omnivorous rodent grows to be 6-12 inches in length, with the tail making up approximately half of its total length.

(Gerbil, NCI Thesaurus)

A rodent belonging to subfamily Gerbillinae, Meriones unguiculatus is the most common species of the gerbil subfamily.

(Mongolian Gerbil, NCI Thesaurus)