MESOCRICETUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mesocricetus mean? 

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

1. golden hamsters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MESOCRICETUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Golden hamsters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Mesocricetus; Mesocricetus

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

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Mesocricetus"):

golden hamster; Mesocricetus auratus; Syrian hamster (small light-colored hamster often kept as a pet)

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

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

 Context examples 

Any member of the subfamily cricetinae and the genuses Mesocricetus, Phodopus, Cricetus, Cricetulus, Allocricetulus, Cansumys and Tscherskia.

(Hamster, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)