Definition of Meriones

1. Noun. A genus of Cricetidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Meriones
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Cricetidae, Family Cricetidae
Member holonyms: Jird, Meriones Unguiculatus, Tamarisk Gerbil, Meriones Longifrons, Sand Rat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meriones

Meregate
Merendino's technique
Mereon
Mergenthaler
Merginae
Mergus
Mergus albellus
Mergus merganser
Mergus merganser americanus
Mergus serrator
Meri
Meriam
Merida
Meridiani Planum
Meridith
Meriones (current term)
Meriones longifrons
Meriones unguiculatus
Merionethshire
Meriwether Lewis
Merkel
Merkel's corpuscle
Merkel's filtrum ventriculi
Merkel's fossa
Merkel's muscle
Merkel's tactile cell
Merkel's tactile disk
Merkel cell tumour
Merkozy
Merlangus

Literary usage of Meriones

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1898)
"He spake, and summoned to his side the sons Of glorious Nestor, and Meriones, And Meges, son of Phyleus, and with them MS Thoas, and Lycomedes, Creon's son, ..."

2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1856)
"Notice of the Species of Meriones and Arvicola found in Nova Scotia. ... I. Of the genus Meriones (Illiger) there appear to be two species in Nova ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1856)
"Notice of the Species of Meriones and Arvicola found in Nova Scotia. ... I. Of the genus Meriones (Illiger) there appear to be two species in Nova Scotia. ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"The Meriones, Fred. Cuv. Which we separate from the other Gerbils, have the hind feet still longer ; the tail nearly naked, and a very small tooth before ..."

5. Lectures on the Comparative Pathology of Inflammation by Elie Metchnikoff (1893)
"... inflammation—Phagocytic nature of tuberculous cells—Destruction of tubercle bacilli by phagocytes—Power of resistance of Meriones to tubercle—Leprosy. ..."

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