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🐭 A mouse-like rodent 🐭 Like mice or rats
muroid

muroid

9.9
Relating to small animals like mice or hamsters
  • adjective
  • /ˈmjʊrɔɪd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : muroides
  • The muroid family includes many well-known animals, such as mice and rats.

Examples

  • Even a meager understanding of the phylogenetic relationships among muroid rodents is just emerging.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The current status of muroid rodent nomenclature.

    Academic text (2002)

  • We have included the elements of the muroid classification of Simpson (1945) and contrasted them with the classifications of Musser and Carleton (1993).

    Academic text (2002)

  • The scientist discovered a new species of muroid in the dense forest.

  • Many researchers study the behavior of muroid rodents to understand their social structures.

Surface Forms

muroid positive

Morphology

muroid = Muroidea (opaque) = muro + oid

The formation uses the combining stem 'muro-' (not a familiar standalone English word) plus the suffix '-oid', so an average learner cannot reliably derive the meaning from known English components.

Etymology

Muroid comes from an old Latin word mus meaning 'mouse' and the ending -oid meaning 'like'. So if something is described as muroid, it is 'mouse-like' or related to mice and rats.