muroid

English

Noun

muroid (plural muroids)

1. Any rodent of the superfamily Muroidea.

   Hypernyms: myomorph; rodent, mammal, animal

   Hyponyms: murid, murine

Usage notes

• The hypernymy of the words in their strict senses is muroid (superfamily Muroidea) > murid (family Muridae) > murine (subfamily Murinae), although in broad use the taxon-specific distinctions below superfamily are often ignored.