SCIUROMORPHA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sciuromorpha mean? 

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

1. large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCIUROMORPHA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Sciuromorpha; suborder Sciuromorpha

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Sciuromorpha"):

family Heteromyidae; Heteromyidae (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)

family Geomyidae; Geomyidae (North American pocket gophers)

family Sciuridae; Sciuridae (a mammal family of true squirrels including: ground squirrels; marmots; chipmunks; flying squirrels; spermophiles)

Castoridae; family Castoridae (beavers)

Aplodontiidae; family Aplodontiidae (mountain beavers)

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

order Rodentia; Rodentia (small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis)