NOUN | animal | suborder Sciuromorpha, Sciuromorpha | large more or less primitive rodents |
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Meaning | large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.. | |
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Synonym | Sciuromorpha | |
Member of | Rodentia, order Rodentia | small gnawing animals |
Members | Aplodontiidae, family Aplodontiidae | mountain beavers |
Castoridae, family Castoridae | beavers | |
Geomyidae, family Geomyidae | North American pocket gophers | |
Heteromyidae, family Heteromyidae | small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping | |
Sciuridae, family Sciuridae | A mammal family of true squirrels including | |
Broader | animal order | The order of animals |
Spanish | esciúridos | |
Catalan | esciúrids, Sciuromorpha |
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