Definition of Muroidea

1. Noun. A superfamily of rodents essentially equal to the suborder Myomorpha but with the Dipodidae excluded.

Exact synonyms: Superfamily Muroidea
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Myomorpha, Suborder Myomorpha
Member holonyms: Family Muridae, Muridae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muroidea

Muppets
Murad
Muraenidae
Murasugi sum
Murasugi sums
Murcia
Murcian
Murcians
Murdoch
Muriel
Muriel Sarah Spark
Muriel Spark
Murillo
Muritaniya
Murmansk
Muroidea
Murphy
Murphy's Law
Murphy's law
Murphy's percussion
Murphy's sign
Murphy bed
Murphy beds
Murphy drip
Murphy game
Murray
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray River
Murray Valley encephalitis

Literary usage of Muroidea

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

1. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"All but one of the widely used laboratory rodent species, the cavy or guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), belong to the large super- family muroidea, with its two ..."

2. Outlines of Zoology by John Arthur Thomson, Marion Isabel Newbigin (1906)
"muroidea, Lemurs). These monkey-like animals are sometimes ranked with monkeys as a sub-order of Primates; but there seems more warrant for placing them in ..."

3. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1866)
"... and the Le- muroidea in common. The first main branch gives off a secondary one to represent the ..."

4. Biologisches Zentralblatt by Isidor Rosenthal (1895)
"... zunächst auf eine merkwürdige Eigentümlichkeit in der Ordnung der Halbaffen (Le- muroidea), die meines Wissens bis jetzt ebensowenig gedeutet worden ist ..."

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