Meaning

1 senses

  1. Any murine rodent.

    Near-synonyms: murid, muroid, mouse, rat, vole (all precisely differentiable but not always differentiated)

    a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Murine cells are no smaller than human cells.

    Мишині клітини не менші від людських клітин. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

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  2. Murine models are used in drug development research.

    mccarras · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).

Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).

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Forms

plural: murines
Singularmurine
Pluralmurines

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
mouseA1ratA1muridmuroidvole

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
murderingmurderousmuriaticmurkymurmurB2murphy
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