rodentianadj.
/rə(ʊ)ˈdɛnʃn/, U.S. /roʊˈdɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n/ Of, relating to, or of the nature of a rodent or rodents; characteristic of a rodent.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [adjective] > of or relating to rodents
rodent1830
rodential1832
rodentian1846
sciuroid1850
1846 W. M. Buchanan Technol. Dict. Echimys,..the spring-rat; a genus of mammalia of the rodentian order, considerably larger than the brown rat.
1877 R. E. Smilie Manatitlans xxv. 334 Mousetraps..woven with leaves and flowers to prevent detection from the instinctive caution of the little rodentian marauders.
1911 E. T. Thurston Garden Resurrection xix. 173 It 'ud be just the same if you made rodentian paupers.
1974 Amer. Notes & Queries 13 25/1 The latent comedy in Chaucer's further gathering of words with obvious rodentian associations.
1998 G. Vidal Smithsonian Inst. x. 259 The rodentian face of a Hollywood tycoon had replaced that of grinning oaf.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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