SUBFAMILY GERBILLINAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does subfamily Gerbillinae mean? 

• SUBFAMILY GERBILLINAE (noun)
  The noun SUBFAMILY GERBILLINAE has 1 sense:

1. gerbils

  Familiarity information: SUBFAMILY GERBILLINAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBFAMILY GERBILLINAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gerbils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Gerbillinae; subfamily Gerbillinae

Hypernyms ("subfamily Gerbillinae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "subfamily Gerbillinae"):

genus Gerbillus; Gerbillus (type genus of the Gerbillinae: typical gerbils)

gerbil; gerbille (small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping)

Holonyms ("subfamily Gerbillinae" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

A rodent belonging to subfamily Gerbillinae, Meriones unguiculatus.

(Mongolian Gerbil, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A rodent belonging to subfamily Gerbillinae, Meriones unguiculatus is the most common species of the gerbil subfamily.

(Mongolian Gerbil, NCI Thesaurus)