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nounmostly small New World rodents including New World mice and lemmings and voles and hamsters
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Definition that contains cricetidae
- vole any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows
- myopus a genus of Cricetidae
- field mouse any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows
- genus myopus a genus of Cricetidae
- clethrionomys a genus of Cricetidae
- genus clethrionomys a genus of Cricetidae
- meriones a genus of Cricetidae
- cricetus type genus of the Cricetidae: Old World hamsters
- genus cricetus type genus of the Cricetidae: Old World hamsters
- muridae originally Old World rats now distributed worldwide; distinguished from the Cricetidae by typically lacking cheek pouches