Murine (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

adjective
  1. belonging or pertaining to the rodent subfamily Murinae, which includes more than 500 species of mice and rats: pathological studies of murine viruses;the detection of murine odor in the attic.
noun
  1. a murine rodent: No murines have played more vitally important roles in medical research than common house mice and brown rats.
adjective
  1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Muridae, an Old World family of rodents, typically having long hairless tails: includes rats and mice
  2. resembling a mouse or rat
noun
  1. any animal belonging to the Muridae
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