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HETEROMYIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Heteromyidae mean? 

HETEROMYIDAE (noun)
  The noun HETEROMYIDAE has 1 sense:

1. small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo ratsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HETEROMYIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo rats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Heteromyidae; Heteromyidae

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

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Heteromyidae"):

pocket mouse (any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail)

genus Perognathus; Perognathus; genus Liomys; Liomys (pocket mice)

Dipodomys; genus Dipodomys (kangaroo rats)

genus Microdipodops; Microdipodops (kangaroo mice)

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

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


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