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GENUS SIGMODON

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

American cotton rats

Synonyms:

genus Sigmodon; Sigmodon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Sigmodon" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Sigmodon"):

cotton rat; Sigmodon hispidus (destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America)

Holonyms ("genus Sigmodon" 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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