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Definition of Myomorpha
1. Noun. True rats and mice and related rodents.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Order Rodentia, Rodentia
Member holonyms: Muroidea, Superfamily Muroidea, Cricetidae, Family Cricetidae, Family Zapodidae, Zapodidae, Dipodidae, Family Dipodidae, Family Gliridae, Gliridae, Family Spalacidae, Spalacidae
Definition of Myomorpha
1. n. pl. An extensive group of rodents which includes the rats, mice, jerboas, and many allied forms.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myomorpha
Literary usage of Myomorpha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"Myomorpha—RAT-LIKE RODENTS. The second section of the order GLIRES, containing
the following families—those that are not Indian being in italics ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1914)
"Doran remarks that the Myomorpha and i-ora, which agree in possessing an orbicular
apophysis, also have the malleus; hence we seem to find new and ..."
3. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"On the other hand, both at the present day and in the Tertiaries, North America
abounds in Sciuromorpha and Myomorpha. These facts clearly point to the ..."
4. Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America by Oliver Perry Hay (1902)
"... Myomorpha Brandt. 1883 S. p. 43. 1884 O. p. 812. 1889 P, p. 669. Flower and
Lydekker 1891 A, p. 459. Gadow, H. 1898 A. p. 43. Hut-ekel, E. 1895 A. p. ..."
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