Jird

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  • noun. Any of various small burrowing rodents chiefly of the genus Meriones found in arid regions of Africa and Asia, having large dark eyes and a long furry tail and including the domesticated gerbil.
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  • noun. Any of several North African gerbils.
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  • noun. Any of various rodents of the genera Meriones, Sekeetamys, Brachiones, and sometimes Pachyuromys, an agricultural pest.
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  • noun. gerbil of northern Africa
    • Word Usage
    "Common rodents are gerbil Gerbillus dasyurus and the Sundevall's jird Meriones crassus."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gerbil  gerbille  
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