Synonyms for murine

Most common

mouse · rat · vole · murid · muroid

All synonyms

Noun

Adjective

Definitions

1. n. 1

   Any murine rodent.

   Near-synonyms: murid, muroid, mouse, rat, vole (all precisely differentiable but not always differentiated)

2. adj. 1

   Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.

Related words

Is a kind of

rodential mammalian animalian myomorph myodont

Forms

Plural

murines → mouses, rats, voles, murids…

Example sentences

• mouse A dog runs after a cat, and the cat after a mouse.
• rat He hollowed out a mountain only to pull out a rat.
• vole Help me finish building this vole ladder and I'll treat you to dinner.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

rat¹

4 letters

vole

5 letters

mouse¹, mousy², murid

6 letters

muroid

7 letters

muscine

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (mousy² = 2 syllables).