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Rodentia

noun

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

• Syn: ↑order Rodentia

• Hypernyms: ↑animal order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Eutheria, ↑subclass Eutheria

• Member Meronyms:

↑rodent, ↑gnawer, ↑Myomorpha, ↑suborder Myomorpha, ↑Hystricomorpha, ↑suborder Hystricomorpha, ↑Sciuromorpha, ↑suborder Sciuromorpha, ↑naked mole rat

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/roh den"sheuh,-shee euh, -tee euh/, n.

the order comprising the rodents.

[ < NL, equiv. to L rodent- (s. of rodens), prp. of rodere to gnaw (see -ENT) + -ia -IA]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.