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ctenomyids

ctenomyids is the plural of ctenomyid.

Meaning of ctenomyid

Noun

ctenomyid (plural ctenomyids)

  1. Any rodent of the family Ctenomyidae.
    • New adaptive radiations of small fossorial rodents followed, including crice- tids in the Pliocene and spalacids and ctenomyids primarily in the Pleistocene.1979, Richard F. Johnston, Peter W. Frank, Charles Duncan Michener, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, volume 10, page 271
    Synonyms:
    tuco-tuco

Questions about ctenomyids

What is ctenomyids the plural of?
Ctenomyids is the plural of ctenomyid.

Words near ctenomyids in the dictionary

  1. ctenoid
  2. ctenoidean
  3. ctenoideans
  4. ctenoids
  5. ctenomyid
  6. ctenomyids
  7. ctenophoral
  8. ctenophoran
  9. ctenophorans
  10. ctenophore
  11. ctenophores

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