ORDER RODENTIA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Rodentia mean? 

• ORDER RODENTIA (noun)
  The noun ORDER RODENTIA has 1 sense:

1. small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis

  Familiarity information: ORDER RODENTIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER RODENTIA (noun)

Meaning:

Small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Rodentia; Rodentia

Hypernyms ("order Rodentia" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Rodentia"):

gnawer; gnawing animal; rodent (relatively small gnawing animals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)

Myomorpha; suborder Myomorpha (true rats and mice and related rodents)

Hystricomorpha; suborder Hystricomorpha (an order of rodents including: porcupines; guinea pigs; chinchillas; etc.)

Sciuromorpha; suborder Sciuromorpha (large more or less primitive rodents: squirrels; marmots; gophers; beavers; etc.)

naked mole rat (fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites)

Holonyms ("order Rodentia" is a member of...):

Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)