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Rodentia

noun

Small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis. Synonym: order Rodentia.

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"Rodentia" Quotes from Famous Books

... many heads. The field mouse and rabbits are rodentia, the deer ungulata, the kangaroos marsupialia. In my museum they are all one family, and their labels are their ears. In these days of international conferences, parliaments of religion, pan-everything-in-turn councils, might we not arrange for a great catholic congress of distinguished ...

— Concerning Animals and Other Matters • E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)

... namely, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hyrax. With them a few carnivorous animals are associated, among which are the Hyaenodon dasyuroides, a species of dog, Canis Parisiensis, and a weasel, Cynodon Parisiensis. Of the Rodentia are found a squirrel; of the Cheiroptera, a bat; while the Marsupalia (an order now confined to America, Australia, and some contiguous islands) are represented by ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

Words linked to "Rodentia" : Myomorpha, order Rodentia, suborder Myomorpha, Sciuromorpha, subclass Eutheria, gnawer, animal order, suborder Hystricomorpha, suborder Sciuromorpha, rodent, Hystricomorpha, naked mole rat, Eutheria