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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- The fourth Linnean order of Mammalia, composed of the genera Hystrix, Lepus, Castor, Mus, Sciurus, and Noctilio: excepting the last, the same as Rodentia, the rodents or Rosores. The term has long been superseded by Rodentia, but has come into renewed use, as by Alston, Allen, Coues, and Gill. The Glires are divided into three suborders: Simplicidentati, with one pair of incisors above and below, containing all living rodents excepting the hares and pikas;
- [lowercase] Plural of glis, 1.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An order of mammals; the Rodentia.
Examples
“They argue that this necessarily implies an adaptive function for the appendix, otherwise it would not have been retained in so many of the primates and glires.”
“Et dicitur sic quod sompnus facit glires pingues et crescere. ”
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London
“Take the mammalia, and it is in like manner found to be composed of five orders, -- the cheirotheria, {239c} ferae, cetacea, glires, ungulata.”
“The porcupine, he might say, is of the class mammalia, and the order glires.”
“The art of rearing and fattening great numbers of glires was practised in Roman villas as a profitable article of rural economy, (Varro, de Re Rustica, iii.”
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
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