gerbille

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

gerbille - small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leapinggerbilgnawer, rodent - relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawingGerbillinae, subfamily Gerbillinae - gerbilsjird - gerbil of northern AfricaMeriones unguiculatus, tamarisk gerbil - a gerbil that is popular as a petMeriones longifrons, sand rat - southern European gerbil