Definition of Heteromyidae

1. Noun. Small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo rats.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Heteromyidae

Hestia
Hesychast
Hesychast controversy
Hesychasts
Hesychian
Heterakis
Heteranthera
Heteranthera dubia
Heterobasidiomycetes
Heterodon
Heterodoxus spiniger
Heterokontae
Heterokontophyta
Heteromeles
Heteromeles arbutifolia
Heteromyidae
Heterophyes
Heteropoda
Heteroscelus
Heteroscelus incanus
Heterosomata
Heterostraci
Heterotheca
Heterotheca villosa
Heterotrichales
Hettie
Heubner's arteritis
Heuchera
Heuchera americana

Literary usage of Heteromyidae

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

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"heteromyidae.—The members of this family are also American, but are not confined to the northern-central regions of that continent, for the genus ..."

2. Wild Land Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium: Proceedings edited by Bruce A. Roundy, E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Hayley, David K. Mann (1996)
"Biology of the heteromyidae. American Society of Mammalogists, Special Publication No. 10: 618-651. Brown, JH; Heske, EJ 1990. Control of a desert-grassland ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1903)
"... in fact, rather remote relatives of any modern type, and combine characters of Sciuridae, Geomyidae, and heteromyidae with others peculiar to themselves ..."

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