Translingual

Mus musculoides (African pygmy mouse)

Lemniscomys barbarus (Barbary striped grass mouse

Rhombomys opimus (great gerbil)

Proper noun

Muridae

1. A taxonomic family within the superfamily Muroidea – over 700 species including Old World rats and mice, gerbils, and allies.

Hypernyms

• (family): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Placentalia - cohort; Rodentia - order; Myomorpha or Sciurognathi - suborder; Muroidea - superfamily

Hyponyms

• (family): Deomyinae (spiny mouse, brush furred mouse, link rat); Gerbillinae (gerbil, jird and sand rat); Leimacomyinae (Togo mouse); Lophiomyinae (crested rat); Murinae (Old World rats and mice including the vlei rats}) - subfamilies