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ZAPODIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Zapodidae mean? 

ZAPODIDAE (noun)
  The noun ZAPODIDAE has 1 sense:

1. jumping miceplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ZAPODIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Jumping mice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Zapodidae; Zapodidae

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

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Zapodidae"):

jumping mouse (any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches; of woodlands of Eurasia and North America)

genus Zapus; Zapus (type genus of the Zapodidae)

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

Myomorpha; suborder Myomorpha (true rats and mice and related rodents)


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