Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n.pl. A tribe of rodents containing the squirrels and allied animals, such as the gophers, woodchucks, beavers, and others.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of three superfamilies of simplicident Rodentia, comprising the Anomaluridæ, Sciuridæ, Ischyromyidæ (fossil), Haplodontidæ, and Castoridæ, or the scaletails, squirrels in a broad sense, sewellels, and beavers: correlated with Myomorpha and Hystricomorpha, and also with Lagomorpha of the duplicident series.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.
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Examples
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Unlike as this animal is externally to the squirrels, its anatomy warrants its position in the Sciuromorpha, otherwise one would feel inclined to include it in the next section.
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The Simple-toothed Rodents are more numerous, and consist of about eighteen families arranged under three sections, which are _Sciuromorpha_, or Squirrel-like Rodents, _Myomorpha_ or
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