单词 | mongolian gerbil |
释义 | > as lemmasMongolian gerbil Mongolian gerbil n. a ratlike rodent, Meriones unguiculatus (family Muridae), native to Mongolia and China (the kind of gerbil most commonly kept as a pet and as a laboratory animal); also called clawed jird. ΚΠ 1957 UFAW Handbk. Care Management Lab. Animals (ed. 2) lxxv. 893 Dr. Victor Schwentker has developed a thriving colony of Clawed Jirds or Mongolian gerbils from specimens received from..Tokyo. 1984 D. McDonald Encycl. Mammals II. 674/2 To most people a gerbil is an attractive pet rodent with large dark eyes and a furry tail. The animal they have in mind however, is the Mongolian gerbil, just one of the many species of gerbils, jirds and sandrats that belong to the largest group of rodents in Africa and Asia. < as lemmas |
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