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    SCIUROMORPHA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.play

    Synonyms:

    Sciuromorpha; suborder Sciuromorpha

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("Sciuromorpha" is a kind of...):

    animal order (the order of animals)

    Meronyms (members of "Sciuromorpha"):

    family Heteromyidae; Heteromyidae (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 rats)

    family Geomyidae; Geomyidae (North American pocket gophers)

    family Sciuridae; Sciuridae (a mammal family of true squirrels including: ground squirrels; marmots; chipmunks; flying squirrels; spermophiles)

    Castoridae; family Castoridae (beavers)

    Aplodontiidae; family Aplodontiidae (mountain beavers)

    Holonyms ("Sciuromorpha" is a member of...):

    order Rodentia; Rodentia (small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis)

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