murine

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any murine rodent.
    — Near-synonyms: murid, muroid, mouse, rat, vole (all precisely differentiable but not always differentiated)
形容词 adj.
  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. 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?

词形变化

more murine comparative most murine superlative murines plural

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).
词源 2
Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).
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