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JERBOA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mouselike jumping rodent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("jerboa" is a kind of...):

gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jerboa"):

typical jerboa (small nocturnal jumping rodent with long hind legs; of arid parts of Asia and northern Africa)

Jaculus jaculus (a variety of jerboa)

Holonyms ("jerboa" is a member of...):

Dipodidae; family Dipodidae (Old World jerboas)

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