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sigmodontine

sigmodontine noun: any rodent of the subfamily Sigmodontinae.

Noun

sigmodontine (plural sigmodontines)

  1. Any rodent of the subfamily Sigmodontinae
    • These are not minor issues because the regional extinctions of small mammals are a widespread phenomenon in southern South America and have involved several sigmodontine and caviomorph rodent species.2015 July 24, “Regional Extinctions and Quaternary Shifts in the Geographic Range of Lestodelphys halli, the Southernmost Living Marsupial: Clues for Its Conservation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of sigmodontine

pluralsigmodontines

Questions about sigmodontine

What does sigmodontine mean?
Sigmodontine means any rodent of the subfamily Sigmodontinae.
What part of speech is sigmodontine?
Sigmodontine is a noun.
What is the plural of sigmodontine?
The plural of sigmodontine is sigmodontines.

Words near sigmodontine in the dictionary

  1. SIGMET
  2. SIGMETs
  3. sigmn.
  4. sigmodal
  5. sigmodont
  6. sigmodontine
  7. sigmodontines
  8. sigmodonts
  9. sigmoid
  10. sigmoid colon
  11. sigmoid colons

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