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SUBFAMILY GERBILLINAE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Gerbils

Synonyms:

Gerbillinae; subfamily Gerbillinae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("subfamily Gerbillinae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "subfamily Gerbillinae"):

genus Gerbillus; Gerbillus (type genus of the Gerbillinae: typical gerbils)

gerbil; gerbille (small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping)

Holonyms ("subfamily Gerbillinae" 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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