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GENUS PITYMYS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pitymys mean?
• GENUS PITYMYS (noun)
The noun GENUS PITYMYS has 1 sense:
1. pine mice
Familiarity information: GENUS PITYMYS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pine mice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
genus Pitymys; Pitymys
Hypernyms ("genus Pitymys" is a kind of...):
mammal genus (a genus of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "genus Pitymys"):
pine mouse; pine vole; Pitymys pinetorum (short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States)
Holonyms ("genus Pitymys" is a member of...):
Cricetidae; family Cricetidae (mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters)
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