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RODENTIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis
Synonyms:
order Rodentia; Rodentia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Rodentia" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Rodentia"):
gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)
Myomorpha; suborder Myomorpha (true rats and mice and related rodents)
Hystricomorpha; suborder Hystricomorpha (an order of rodents including: porcupines; guinea pigs; chinchillas; etc.)
Sciuromorpha; suborder Sciuromorpha (large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.)
naked mole rat (fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites)
Holonyms ("Rodentia" is a member of...):
Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
