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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to a rodent of the family Muridae or subfamily Murinae, including rats and mice.
  2. adj. Caused, transmitted, or affected by such a rodent: a murine plague.
  3. n. A murine rodent.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Muriform or myomorphic in general; resembling a mouse or a rat; specifically, of or pertaining to the family Muridæ or the subfamily Murinæ.
  2. n. A mouse or a rat.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the mouse, rat or (more generally) any mammal of the family Muridae.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to a family of rodents (Muridæ), of which the mouse is the type.
  2. n. (Zoöl.) One of a tribe of rodents, of which the mouse is the type.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice)
  2. n. a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae

Etymologies

  1. Latin mūrīnus, of mice, from mūs, mūr-, mouse. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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