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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as Saccomyina and Saccomyoidea.
  • A family of myomorphic rodents named from the genus Saccomys, confined to North America and the West Indies, having external cheek-pouches and a murine aspect; the pocket-rats or pocketmice.

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