Cricetidae

noun

mostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters

• Syn: ↑family Cricetidae

• Hypernyms: ↑mammal family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Myomorpha, ↑suborder Myomorpha

• Member Meronyms:

↑New World mouse, ↑Reithrodontomys, ↑genus Reithrodontomys, ↑Peromyscus, ↑genus Peromyscus, ↑Baiomys, ↑genus Baiomys, ↑Onychomys, ↑genus Onychomys, ↑Ondatra, ↑genus Ondatra, ↑Neofiber, ↑genus Neofiber, ↑Sigmodon, ↑genus Sigmodon, ↑wood rat, ↑wood-rat, ↑Neotoma, ↑genus Neotoma, ↑Oryzomys, ↑genus Oryzomys, ↑Pitymys, ↑genus Pitymys, ↑Microtus, ↑genus Microtus, ↑Arvicola, ↑genus Arvicola, ↑Clethrionomys, ↑genus Clethrionomys, ↑genus Phenacomys, ↑Cricetus, ↑genus Cricetus, ↑Mesocricetus, ↑genus Mesocricetus, ↑Gerbillinae, ↑subfamily Gerbillinae, ↑Meriones, ↑genus Meriones, ↑lemming, ↑Lemmus, ↑genus lemmus, ↑Myopus, ↑genus Myopus, ↑Dicrostonyx, ↑genus Dicrostonyx, ↑Synaptomys, ↑genus Synaptomys

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\\krə̇ˈsed.əˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Cricetus, type genus + -idae

: a family of myomorph rodents comprising the New World mice, the lemmings, voles, hamsters, and related forms that are mostly small, resemble mice or rats, and have three molar teeth on each side whose cusps in the upper series are arranged in transverse pairs