muroid

Noun

Meaning

muroid (plural muroids)

Any rodent of the superfamily Muroidea; the hypernymy of the words in their strict/narrow senses is muroid (superfamily Muroidea) > murid (family Muridae) > murine (subfamily Murinae), although in broad use the taxon-specific distinctions below superfamily are often ignored.

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Examples

The muroid family is broad and complex, and the common terms rat and mouse are not taxonomically specific. Source: Internet

Mouse often refers to any small muroid rodent, while rat refers to larger muroid rodents. Source: Internet

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