noun
mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters
• Syn: ↑Cricetidae
• Hypernyms: ↑mammal family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Myomorpha, ↑suborder Myomorpha
• Member Meronyms:
↑New World mouse, ↑Reithrodontomys, ↑genus Reithrodontomys, ↑Peromyscus, ↑genus Peromyscus, ↑Baiomys, ↑genus Baiomys, ↑Onychomys, ↑genus Onychomys, ↑Ondatra, ↑genus Ondatra, ↑Neofiber, ↑genus Neofiber, ↑Sigmodon, ↑genus Sigmodon, ↑wood rat, ↑wood-rat, ↑Neotoma, ↑genus Neotoma, ↑Oryzomys, ↑genus Oryzomys, ↑Pitymys, ↑genus Pitymys, ↑Microtus, ↑genus Microtus, ↑Arvicola, ↑genus Arvicola, ↑Clethrionomys, ↑genus Clethrionomys, ↑genus Phenacomys, ↑Cricetus, ↑genus Cricetus, ↑Mesocricetus, ↑genus Mesocricetus, ↑Gerbillinae, ↑subfamily Gerbillinae, ↑Meriones, ↑genus Meriones, ↑lemming, ↑Lemmus, ↑genus lemmus, ↑Myopus, ↑genus Myopus, ↑Dicrostonyx, ↑genus Dicrostonyx, ↑Synaptomys, ↑genus Synaptomys
Useful english dictionary. 2012.