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murine en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).

Meanings

  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. 2023, Kate Atkinson, “Existential Marginalisation”, in Normal Rules Don’t Apply, Penguin (2024), page 133:
  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.
    • One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation. 2002, Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699:
    • 1977, Richard Peto⁽ᵂᴾ⁾ Are our stem cells really, then, a billion or a trillion times more "cancerproof" than murine stem cells?

Forms

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most murine Degree=Sup lexicographic
more murine Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Coordinates

mouselike · mousy

Deriveds

murinometric · murinise · nonmurine · murinize · muromonab · murinization · antimurine

Hypernyms

rodential · mammalian · mammalian · animalian · rodential · animalian

Translations (39)

sh mȉšjī (characteristic of mice) · ko 쥐의 (characteristic of mice) · it murino (characteristic of mice) · be пацуко́ў (characteristic of mice) · fr murin (characteristic of mice) · de Maus- (characteristic of mice) · uk пацю́чий (characteristic of mice) · ar فَأْرِيّ (characteristic of mice) · be пацучы́ны (characteristic of mice) · be шчу́равы (characteristic of mice) · sl mišji (characteristic of mice) · pl szczurzy (characteristic of mice) · cs myší (characteristic of mice) · ja ネズミの (characteristic of mice) · sk myší (characteristic of mice) · es ratonero (characteristic of mice) · mk глувчешки (characteristic of mice) · uk щуря́чий (characteristic of mice) · pl mysi (characteristic of mice) · de mausartig (characteristic of mice) · de murin (characteristic of mice) · cs krysí (characteristic of mice) · uk ми́шачий (characteristic of mice) · la mūrīnus (characteristic of mice) · pt murino (characteristic of mice) · ru мыши́ный (characteristic of mice) · sk myšací (characteristic of mice) · sh ми̏шјӣ (characteristic of mice) · eo musa (characteristic of mice) · cmn 鼠科的 (characteristic of mice) · fi hiiri- (characteristic of mice) · es murino (characteristic of mice) · cmn 鼠的 (characteristic of mice) · bg ми́ши (characteristic of mice) · fi hiirimäinen (characteristic of mice) · uk пацюко́вий (characteristic of mice) · be мышы́ны (characteristic of mice) · ca murí (characteristic of mice) · ru крыси́ный (characteristic of mice)

murine en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).

Meanings

  1. Any murine rodent.
    • Near-synonyms: murid, muroid, mouse, rat, vole (all precisely differentiable but not always differentiated)

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
murines Number=Plur lexicographic

Hypernyms

vertebrate · myomorph · myodont · mammal · rodent · creature · organism · gnawer · animal · critter

Synonyms

mouse · muroid · vole · rat · murid

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