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OCHOTONIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Ochotonidae mean?
• OCHOTONIDAE (noun)
The noun OCHOTONIDAE has 1 sense:
1. pikas and extinct forms
Familiarity information: OCHOTONIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pikas and extinct forms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Ochotonidae; Ochotonidae
Hypernyms ("Ochotonidae" is a kind of...):
mammal family (a family of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "Ochotonidae"):
coney; cony; mouse hare; pika; rock rabbit (small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America)
genus Ochotona; Ochotona (type genus of the Ochotonidae)
Holonyms ("Ochotonidae" is a member of...):
Lagomorpha; order Lagomorpha (rabbits; hares; pikas; formerly considered the suborder Duplicidentata of the order Rodentia)
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