Definition of Myomorpha

1. Noun. True rats and mice and related rodents.


Definition of Myomorpha

1. n. pl. An extensive group of rodents which includes the rats, mice, jerboas, and many allied forms.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Myomorpha

Myctophidae
Myerscough
Myfanwy
Mykolaiv
Mykonos
Mylanta
Mylar
Myles
Myles Standish
Myliobatidae
Mylitta
Mylodontidae
Mymensingh District
Myocastor
Myocastor coypus
Myomorpha
Myopus
Myosotis
Myosotis scorpiodes
Myosotis sylvatica
Myotis
Myotis leucifugus
Myotis velifer
Myr
Myra
Myrcia
Myrciaria
Myrciaria cauliflora
Myrdal
Myriapoda

Literary usage of Myomorpha

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"myomorpha—RAT-LIKE RODENTS. The second section of the order GLIRES, containing the following families—those that are not Indian being in italics ..."

2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1914)
"Doran remarks that the myomorpha and i-ora, which agree in possessing an orbicular apophysis, also have the malleus; hence we seem to find new and ..."

3. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"On the other hand, both at the present day and in the Tertiaries, North America abounds in Sciuromorpha and myomorpha. These facts clearly point to the ..."

4. Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America by Oliver Perry Hay (1902)
"... myomorpha Brandt. 1883 S. p. 43. 1884 O. p. 812. 1889 P, p. 669. Flower and Lydekker 1891 A, p. 459. Gadow, H. 1898 A. p. 43. Hut-ekel, E. 1895 A. p. ..."

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