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murine is a noun and adjective meaning "a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae
of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice)
“a murine plague”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for murine come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.