Akademik

Gliridae

noun

dormice and other Old World forms

• Syn: ↑family Gliridae

• Hypernyms: ↑mammal family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Myomorpha, ↑suborder Myomorpha

• Member Meronyms:

↑dormouse, ↑Glis, ↑genus Glis, ↑Muscardinus, ↑genus Muscardinus, ↑Eliomys, ↑genus Eliomys

* * *

\\ˈglirəˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Glir-, Glis, type genus + -idae

: a family of widely distributed Old World myomorph rodents including the dormice

Useful english dictionary. 2012.