- jerboa mouse
- noun
: any of various leaping rodents usually with elongated hind legs (as the sciuromorph pocket mice and kangaroo rats or the myomorph broad-toothed rat)
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jerboa mouse
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jerboa — /jeuhr boh euh, jer /, n. any of various mouselike rodents of North Africa and Asia, as of the genera Jaculus and Dipus, with long hind legs used for jumping. [1655 65; < NL < Ar yarbu ; see GERBIL] * * * ▪ rodent Introduction any of 33… … Universalium
jerboa — /dʒɜˈboʊə / (say jer bohuh) noun 1. a small carnivorous marsupial Antechinomys laniger, which inhabits the central desert of Australia and resembles the jerboa (def. 2), although it does not hop; kultarr. 2. any of various mouse like rodents of… …
jerboa pouched mouse — noun → jerboa (def. 1). Also, jerboa kangaroo …
Mouse — Heb. akhbar, swift digger ), properly the dormouse, the field mouse (1 Sam. 6:4). In Lev. 11:29, Isa. 66:17 this word is used generically, and includes the jerboa (Mus jaculus), rat, hamster (Cricetus), which, though declared to be unclean… … Easton's Bible Dictionary
jerboa — noun A small, mouse like, jumping rodent (family Dipodidae) resembling a miniature kangaroo, having a long tufted tail, very small fore feet, but very long hind legs, native to the deserts of Asia and northern Africa … Wiktionary
jerboa rat — /dʒɜˌboʊə ˈræt/ (say jer.bohuh rat) noun → hopping mouse …
jerboa rat — noun large Australian rat with hind legs adapted for leaping • Hypernyms: ↑rat • Hyponyms: ↑kangaroo mouse • Member Holonyms: ↑Conilurus, ↑genus Conilurus * * * noun : any of several r … Useful english dictionary
jerboa pouched mouse — noun : any of several small slender leaping marsupials (genus Antechinomys) of the central desert of Australia … Useful english dictionary
Woodland jumping mouse — Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene to Recent Conservation status … Wikipedia
Meadow jumping mouse — Temporal range: Middle Miocene–Recent … Wikipedia
