cricetus

1. 1.

   type genus of the Cricetidae: Old World hamsters

   Synonymsgenus Cricetus

   Broadermammal genus

   Part ofCricetidae

Other forms of cricetus

plural

cricetuses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cricetus

What does cricetus mean?

cricetus means "type genus of the Cricetidae: Old World hamsters".

How many syllables are in cricetus?

cricetus has 3 syllables: cri-ce-tus. The stress falls on "cri".

What is another word for cricetus?

Close synonyms include genus Cricetus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cricetus a common word?

cricetus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.