- family Hydrochoeridae
- nouncapybara• Syn: ↑Hydrochoeridae• Hypernyms: ↑mammal family• Member Meronyms: ↑Hydrochoerus, ↑genus Hydrochoerus
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family Hydrochoeridae
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Hydrochoeridae — noun capybara • Syn: ↑family Hydrochoeridae • Hypernyms: ↑mammal family • Member Meronyms: ↑Hydrochoerus, ↑genus Hydrochoerus … Useful english dictionary
mammal family — noun a family of mammals • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑Tachyglossidae, ↑family Tachyglossidae, ↑Ornithorhynchidae, ↑family Ornithorhynchidae, ↑Didelphidae, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Hydrochoerinae — Taxobox | name = Hydrochoerinae fossil range = Late Miocene Recent image caption = Capybara regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia familia = Caviidae subfamilia = Hydrochoerinae subfamilia authority = Gray, 1825… … Wikipedia
genus Hydrochoerus — noun a genus of Hydrochoeridae • Syn: ↑Hydrochoerus • Hypernyms: ↑mammal genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Hydrochoeridae, ↑family Hydrochoeridae … Useful english dictionary
Hydrochoerus — noun a genus of Hydrochoeridae • Syn: ↑genus Hydrochoerus • Hypernyms: ↑mammal genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Hydrochoeridae, ↑family Hydrochoeridae * * * ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷+ˈkirəs, ˈkēr no … Useful english dictionary
Mammal classification — Over 70% of mammal species are in the orders Rodentia (blue), Chiroptera (red), and Soricomorpha (yellow) Mammalia is a class of animal within the Phylum Chordata. Mammal classification has been through several iterations since Carolus Linnaeus… … Wikipedia
List of families — This is a list of families used in scientific classification.=Kingdom Animalia=Phylum ChordataClass AvesOrder Accipitriformes* Family Accipitridae: hawks, eagles, buzzards, Old World vultures, and allies * Family Cathartidae: New World vultures * … Wikipedia
rodent — rodentlike, adj. /rohd nt/, adj. 1. belonging or pertaining to the gnawing or nibbling mammals of the order Rodentia, including the mice, squirrels, beavers, etc. n. 2. a rodent mammal. [1825 35; < NL Rodentia RODENTIA] * * * Any member of the… … Universalium
capybara — /kap euh bahr euh/, n. a South American tailless rodent, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, living along the banks of rivers and lakes, having partly webbed feet: the largest living rodent. Also, capibara. [1765 75; < NL < Pg capibara < Tupi] * * *… … Universalium
capybara — [kap΄i bä′rə] n. [Port capibara < Tupí kapigwara, lit., one who eats grass] any of a family (Hydrochoeridae) of tailless, partially web footed, South American rodents found in and around lakes and streams: the largest extant rodent, reaching a … English World dictionary
