muroid

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English

Noun

muroid (plural muroids)

Any rodent of the superfamily Muroidea

Usage notes

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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