gerbil

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   small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping

   Synonymsgerbille

   Broaderrodent

   Narrowerjirdtamarisk gerbilsand rat

   Part ofGerbillinae

Other forms of gerbil

plural

gerbils·

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 gerbil

What does gerbil mean?

gerbil means "small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping".

How many syllables are in gerbil?

gerbil has 2 syllables: ger-bil. The stress falls on "ger". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɝbɪl/.

What is another word for gerbil?

Close synonyms include gerbille. 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 gerbil a common word?

gerbil is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.