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rhizomyid

rhizomyid noun: any rodent in the family Rhizomyidae, now considered to be the spalacid subfamily Rhizomyinae, comprising the bamboo rats and mole rats (as opposed to the naked mole rats in the subfamily Spalacinae).

Noun

rhizomyid (plural rhizomyids)

  1. Any rodent in the family Rhizomyidae, now considered to be the spalacid subfamily Rhizomyinae, comprising the bamboo rats and mole rats (as opposed to the naked mole rats in the subfamily Spalacinae).

Forms of rhizomyid

pluralrhizomyids

Questions about rhizomyid

What does rhizomyid mean?
Rhizomyid means any rodent in the family Rhizomyidae, now considered to be the spalacid subfamily Rhizomyinae, comprising the bamboo rats and mole rats (as opposed to the naked mole rats in the subfamily Spalacinae).
What part of speech is rhizomyid?
Rhizomyid is a noun.
What is the plural of rhizomyid?
The plural of rhizomyid is rhizomyids.

Words near rhizomyid in the dictionary

  1. rhizomorphal
  2. rhizomorphic
  3. rhizomorphoid
  4. rhizomorphous
  5. rhizomorphs
  6. rhizomyid
  7. rhizomyids
  8. rhizopathies
  9. rhizopathy
  10. rhizopepsin
  11. rhizophagous

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