Meaning | large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.. |
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Synonym | Sciuromorpha |
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Member of | Rodentia, order Rodentia | small gnawing animals |
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Members | Aplodontiidae, family Aplodontiidae | mountain beavers |
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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 |
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Spanish | esciúridos |
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Catalan | esciúrids, Sciuromorpha |
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