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murine

mu·rine [ myrin, my rn ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
1. of mouse and rat family: relating to or belonging to the family of long-tailed rodents that includes rats and mice. Family Muridae.

2. like rodent: resembling a mouse or a rat

3. spread by rodents: caused or transmitted by mice or rats

[Early 17th century. < Latin murinus< mur- "mouse"]
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