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GENUS PITYMYS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Pine mice

Synonyms:

genus Pitymys; Pitymys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Pitymys" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Pitymys"):

pine mouse; pine vole; Pitymys pinetorum (short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States)

Holonyms ("genus Pitymys" is a member of...):

Cricetidae; family Cricetidae (mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters)

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