family bathyergidae meaning

• Noun: family Bathyergidae
  1. Mole rats; sand rats
     - Bathyergidae

  Type of: mammal family

  Part of: Hystricomorpha, suborder Hystricomorpha

• bathyergidae:    Noun: Bathyergidae ...
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Examples

1. The family Bathyergidae, or African mole-rats ( including the well-known naked mole-rat ), belong to the other major division of the rodents, the Hystricomorphs.