MUS MUSCULUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mus musculus mean? 

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

1. brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUS MUSCULUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

house mouse; Mus musculus

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

mouse (any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails)

Holonyms ("Mus musculus" is a member of...):

genus Mus; Mus (type genus of the Muridae: common house mice; the tips of the upper incisors have a square notch)

 Context examples 

A subspecies of common house mouse (Mus musculus).

(Mus musculus castaneus, 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)

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)

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)

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)