Library / English Dictionary

GENUS REITHRODONTOMYS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

New World harvest mice

Synonyms:

genus Reithrodontomys; Reithrodontomys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Reithrodontomys"):

American harvest mouse; harvest mouse (any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields)

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

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

Credits