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FAMILY HETEROMYIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Heteromyidae mean?
• FAMILY HETEROMYIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY 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 rats
Familiarity information: FAMILY HETEROMYIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("family Heteromyidae" is a kind of...):
mammal family (a family of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "family 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 ("family Heteromyidae" is a member of...):
Sciuromorpha; suborder Sciuromorpha (large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.)
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