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murid

murid adjective: of or belonging to the family Muridae.

murid: of or belonging to the family Muridae
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Adjective

murid (not comparable)

  1. Of or belonging to the family Muridae.
    • The theory of faunal dominance holds that while evolution occurs everywhere, certain land masses generate disproportionately more terrestrial and aquatic groups, such as the familiar murid rodents and ranid frogs, which are able to colonize and dominate other land masses.2000 June 25, E[dward] O[sborne] Wilson, “The Writing Life”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017
    • Calhoun, an endlessly inventive designer of experiments, built an enclosure outfitted with rat apartments and partitioned the pen into connected “neighborhoods,” creating a murid arcadia that he could observe at his leisure.2024 September 17, Ben Goldfarb, “Book Review: How One Weird Rodent Ecologist Tried to Change the Fate of Humanity”, in Scientific American, New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature America, Inc., →ISSN...

Noun (1)

murid (plural murids)

  1. Any rodent in the family Muridae.
    • Near-synonyms: mouse, rat
    Synonyms:
    mouse, rat

Noun (2)

murid (plural murids)

  1. A Sufi novice committed to enlightenment under a spiritual guide.
    • And when Russian troops attacked breakaway Chechnya in the early 1990s, separatist fighters were often seen performing the stirring ritual the zikr, during which murids dance in a circle while crying hypnotic chants.2007 November 22, Tom Parfitt, “The battle for the soul of Chechnya”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2013
  2. A member of the largest of the three hereditary Yazidi castes, composed of laypeople charged with seeking spiritual guidance from the sheikhs and pirs.

Noun (3) capitalized: Murid

Murid (plural Murids)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of murid (Yazidi caste)

murid meaning in Vietnamese

murid in Vietnamese

any rodent in the family Muridae
chuột

Synonyms of murid

Forms of murid

pluralmurids
pluralMurids

Origin of murid

An appellativization from Murid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names); by surface analysis, ending in suffix -id.

From Arabic مُرِيد (murīd, literally “seeker”).

Questions about murid

What does murid mean?
Murid means of or belonging to the family Muridae.
What is murid in Vietnamese?
Murid in Vietnamese is chuột. See Murid meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is murid?
Murid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near murid in the dictionary

  1. muricin
  2. muricine
  3. muricinine
  4. muricoid
  5. muriculate
  6. murid
  7. muride
  8. murids
  9. Muriel
  10. muriform
  11. muriformly

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