Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A series of simplicident rodents; one of three prime divisions of rodents, including the porcupines and their congeners.
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- noun an order of rodents including: porcupines; guinea pigs; chinchillas; etc.
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Rat-like Rodents, and _Hystricomorpha_, or Porcupine-like Rodents.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Lusty, J.A. et al. "Oestrus and Ovulation in the Casiragua Proechimys quairae (Rodentia, Hystricomorpha)."
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