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Definition of Rodents

1. rodent [n] - See also: rodent

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rodents

Literary usage of Rodents

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

1. Microbial and Phenotypic Definition of Rats and Mice: Proceedings of the by National Research Council Staff, ebrary, Inc, National Research Council, International Committee, Commission on Life Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (1999)
"It follows that the quality of much biomedical research relies substantively on the quality of laboratory rodents. During 1993, the NCRR conducted a ..."

2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"rodents comprise more than one-third of all living species of mammals, ... The most extensive family of rodents is the Mundae, which includes the true rats ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"An os penis is present in the majority of bats, insectivores, rodents, ... Of the purely terrestrial orders, the rodents have the widest range, ..."

4. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"RATS AND OTHER rodents Rats, mice, squirrels, and other rodents have become a ... rodents comprise more than one-third of all living species of mammals, ..."

5. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, Bennett J. Cohen, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"OTHER rodents Two long-lived genera of the family Muridae, subfamily Murinae, ... Among North American rodents, the cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus, ..."

6. Genetics and Eugenics: A Text-book for Students of Biology and a Reference by William Ernest Castle (1916)
"As an example we may take the varieties of the domestic cavy or guinea-pig, probably the first of the rodents in point of time to be domesticated. ..."

7. Genetics and Eugenics: A Text-book for Students of Biology and a Reference by William Ernest Castle (1916)
"As an example we may take the varieties of the domestic cavy or guinea-pig, probably the first of the rodents in point of time to be domesticated. ..."

8. Genetics and Eugenics: A Text-book for Students of Biology and a Reference by William Ernest Castle (1916)
"As an example we may take the varieties of the domestic cavy or guinea-pig, probably the first of the rodents in point of time to be domesticated. ..."

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