Murine

//ˈmjʊəɹaɪn// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any murine mammal.
  2. 2
    a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.

    "They had watched, paralysed, as, squeaking with terror, her small murine body was ripped to pieces, Tilly yipping gleefully with excitement all the while."

  2. 2
    More generally, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of any rodent up to the taxonomic rank of Muroidea, most often with reference to mice and rats of the subfamily Murinae.

    "1977, Richard Peto⁽ᵂᴾ⁾ Are our stem cells really, then, a billion or a trillion times more "cancerproof" than murine stem cells?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice) wordnet

Synonyms

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mousymuscine

Example

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"Murine cells are no smaller than human cells."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).

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