PITYMYS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pitymys mean? 

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

1. pine mice

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITYMYS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pine mice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Pitymys; Pitymys

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

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Pitymys"):

pine mouse; pine vole; Pitymys pinetorum (short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States)

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

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