Definition of Bathyergidae

1. Noun. Mole rats; sand rats.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Bathyergidae

Bates
Bates number
Bates numbered
Bates numbering
Bates numberings
Bates numbers
Batesian
Batesian mimicry
Bath
Bath Oliver
Bath Olivers
Bath chair
Bath chairs
Bathsheba
Bathshua
Bathyergidae
Bathyergus
Batidaceae
Batis
Batis maritima
Batista bomb
Batman
Batmobile
Batmobiled
Batmobiles
Batmobiling
Batna
Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge Bridge
Batoum

Literary usage of Bathyergidae

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

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"Hence in the Geomyidae and in Lutra the external ears are small, in the ratel (Mellivora) very minute and in the bathyergidae they have become reduced to a ..."

2. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Thus "in the pocket-gophers (Geomyidae) and bathyergidae the eyes are small; ... they are very minute, in the bathyergidae (Cape mole- rat, etc. ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"bathyergidae.—This family contains several genera which consist of subterranean forms. All these Rodents agree in a number of characters, ..."

4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1842)
"The situation which the bathyergidae should occupy among the Rodents is difficult to determine. ..."

5. Science in South Africa: A Handbook and Review by William Flint, John Dow Fisher Gilchrist (1905)
"Two of the families are confined to the Ethiopian region—bathyergidae and ... To the family bathyergidae belong the Rodent-Moles ; there are seven or eight ..."

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