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Webster 1913 Edition
Rodentia
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Ro-den′ti-a
,Noun.
pl.
[NL. See ]
Rodent
, Adj.
(Zool.)
An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.
☞ The incisor teeth are long, curved, and strongly enameled on the outside, so as to keep a cutting edge. They have a persistent pulp and grow continuously.
Definition 2025
Rodentia
Rodentia
See also: rodentia
Translingual
Proper noun
Rodentia
- A taxonomic order within the superorder Euarchontoglires – the rodents.
Hypernyms
- (order): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria, Placentalia - cohorts; Boreoeutheria - magnorder; Euarchontoglires - superorder; Gliriformes - order; Glires - clade
Hyponyms
- (order): Sciurognathi, Hystricognathi - suborders
- Sciuromorpha, Castorimorpha, Myomorpha, Anomaluromorpha, Hystricomorpha - infraorders