JUMPING MOUSE

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Meaning:

Any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches; of woodlands of Eurasia and North America

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("jumping mouse" 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 "jumping mouse"):

meadow jumping mouse; Zapus hudsonius (widely distributed in northeastern and central United States and Canada)

Holonyms ("jumping mouse" is a member of...):

family Zapodidae; Zapodidae (jumping mice)

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