myomorphn.adj.
/ˈmʌɪə(ʊ)mɔːf/, U.S. /ˈmaɪoʊˌmɔrf/ Zoology.
A. n.
A rodent of the suborder Myomorpha, which includes the ratlike rodents (i.e. most mice, rats, dormice, voles, hamsters, jerboas, etc.).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > member of
myomorph1883
1883 E. D. Cope in Amer. Naturalist 17 51 The structure of the molars in the fossil genus is exactly like that which I have described as found in Eumys... This is curious, as that genus is probably a Myomorph.
1887 A. Heilprin Geogr. & Geol. Distribution Animals 357 Of the non-murine families of myomorphs the dormice (Myoxidæ) and mole-rats (Spalacidæ) belong to the Old World exclusively.
1947 Evolution 1 157/2 In the Myomorphs, the medialis branch [of the masseter muscle] has grown up, inside the zygoma.
1978 Amer. Mus. Novitates No. 2645. 13/2 Temporal foramina are..usually absent in myomorphs.
1992 Jrnl. Heredity 83 174 It is suggested that the guinea pigs and the myomorphs..are not monophyletic.
B. adj.
Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the suborder Myomorpha.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [adjective]
myomorphine1876
myomorphic1879
myomorph1887
murid1894
1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 1038 Existing rodents of the myomorph type.
1908 Amer. Naturalist 42 167 Migrations..of the Myomorph Rodentia.
1966 A. S. Romer Vertebr. Paleontol. (ed. 3) xxvii. 308/1 Their basic structure is typically myomorph, apart from such minor features as the retention of a vestigial upper premolar.
1994 Brain Res. 648 73/1 Myomorph rodents including Syrian and Siberian hamsters, laboratory rats, white-footed mice, and house mice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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