Definition of cricetidae Cricetidae
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What does cricetidae mean?
WordNet
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| cricetidae - mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters | ||
| family Cricetidae | ||
| mammal family a family of mammals | ||
| myomorpha, suborder myomorpha true rats and mice and related rodents | ||
| new world mouse a variety of rodent | ||
| genus reithrodontomys, reithrodontomys New World harvest mice | ||
| genus peromyscus, peromyscus New World wood mice | ||
| baiomys, genus baiomys pygmy mice | ||
| genus onychomys, onychomys grasshopper mice | ||
| genus ondatra, ondatra muskrats | ||
| genus neofiber, neofiber round-tailed muskrat | ||
| genus sigmodon, sigmodon American cotton rats | ||
| wood-rat, wood rat any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) | ||
| genus neotoma, neotoma packrats | ||
| genus oryzomys, oryzomys rice rats | ||
| genus pitymys, pitymys pine mice | ||
| genus microtus, microtus voles of the northern hemisphere | ||
| arvicola, genus arvicola in some classifications considered synonymous with Microtus | ||
| clethrionomys, genus clethrionomys a genus of Cricetidae | ||
| genus phenacomys North American voles | ||
| cricetus, genus cricetus type genus of the Cricetidae: Old World hamsters | ||
| genus mesocricetus, mesocricetus golden hamsters | ||
| gerbillinae, subfamily gerbillinae gerbils | ||
| genus meriones, meriones a genus of Cricetidae | ||
| lemming any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution | ||
| genus lemmus, lemmus lemmings | ||
| genus myopus, myopus a genus of Cricetidae | ||
| dicrostonyx, genus dicrostonyx pied lemmings | ||
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Wikipedia 
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The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complicated superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, and New World rats and mice. With almost 600 species, it is the second largest family of mammals, and has animals in it in the New World, Asia, and Europe.
Characteristics.
The cricetids are small mammals, ranging from just 5 to 8 cm and 7 grams in weight in the New World Pygmy Mouse, up to 41 to 62 cm and 1,100 grams in the Muskrat. How long the tail is depends on how big the body is, and the tails can be either with hair or a little hair. Most species have brown fur, with a white colored underbelly, but there are also many other patterns, especially in the cricetine and arvicoline subfamilies.
Like the Old World Mice, cricetids live in a wide range of habitats, in the high Arctic to tropical rainforests and hot deserts. Some are good at climbing, with long balancing tails and other way to help them to climb, while others can swim, with webbed feet and small external ears. Yet others are burrowing animals, or ground-dwellers, which live in the ground.
Their diet is also variable, with herbivorous, omnivorous, and insectivorous species known. They all have large, biting and chewing, incisors separated from grinding molar teeth by a gap, or diastema.
There can be a lot of these animals in a very short time, because the mother gives birth to them after 15 to 50 days, and they have a lot of babies at one time. The young are usually born blind, hai
Part of speech
🔤- cricetidae, noun, singular of cricetidaes.
