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    FAMILY HETEROMYIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo ratsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Heteromyidae; Heteromyidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Heteromyidae" is a kind of...):

    mammal family (a family of mammals)

    Meronyms (members of "family Heteromyidae"):

    pocket mouse (any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail)

    genus Perognathus; Perognathus; genus Liomys; Liomys (pocket mice)

    Dipodomys; genus Dipodomys (kangaroo rats)

    genus Microdipodops; Microdipodops (kangaroo mice)

    Holonyms ("family Heteromyidae" is a member of...):

    Sciuromorpha; suborder Sciuromorpha (large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.)

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