order rodentia

1. 1.

   small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis

   SynonymsRodentia

   Broaderanimal order

   Part ofEutheria

Questions about order rodentia

What does order rodentia mean?

order rodentia means "small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis".

What is another word for order rodentia?

Close synonyms include Rodentia. 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 order rodentia a common word?

order rodentia 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.